Can the AI Generated GOP Discern Fact from Fiction?

John Worthington
ILLUMINATION-Curated
6 min readJan 7, 2024

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I’ve noticed recently that no one much is using that Floridian word. Woke, wasn’t it? Pet Rocks didn’t last long either. Now this AI thing, it’s going to be a problem. Like Steph Curry is a problem. It’s not going away and it’s going to do things we’ve never even considered. But, it is going to have to have a leash. No kidding. AI is learning how to learn. The good news is, it does not have an ability to discern fact from fiction. It can only place words together one after another.

AI learns by seeing thousands and millions of images. If it misidentifies an item, the AI gods show it millions of images of the item in question so it can “learn” that item is a widget, for example. The AI gods, or you could call them programmers I guess, use this same method for prohibiting AI from certain activities like bomb construction explanations, or giving out addresses and phone numbers for anyone who asks. That’s how the current crop of AI gods and programmers behave.

One can easily foresee a different crop of gods and programmers doing rather more nefarious or perhaps more self-serving tasks. Because it can be done, the famed Mr. Murphy’s law will certainly come into play. If it turns out to be something not particularly wholesome, even Republicans may wish to pass some regulatory legislation. It would have to be really, really bad for that…

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John Worthington
ILLUMINATION-Curated

As a published author/teacher, I draw on those experiences in my writing and use satire to introduce spiritual concepts through a contemporary political lens.