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So I took the entire transcript, dumped it into AI, and asked what the racist dog whistles were in the speech, and it told me.

right...and then you read the transcript yourself and/or watched the video, to confirm that the summary it gave you was accurate, right?

...right?

because if Trump used 9 racist dogwhistles in his speech, and the "AI" summary gave you a list of 10, and one of them was hallucinated, how would you know?

you're using the "AI" as a confirmation bias machine. you expect there to be dogwhistles, so you ask it for dogwhistles, and it tells you, "yup, here's the dogwhistles".

try this. pretend you're a MAGA true believer, take that exact same transcript, and ask the "AI" for a list of ways that the speech demonstrates Trump's commitment to America First. or for ways that Trump is making America safer, or improving the economy, or whatever.

no matter what you ask it, it's just going to fill in the blanks of what it thinks you want to hear.

humans are really good at confirmation bias, as it turns out. you don't need to outsource it to a warehouse full of GPUs. you can just do it with your boring old analog brain.

I get the information to kind of see what he’s up to.

your news diet is full of empty calories. you read that "AI" summary and you feel like you're better informed. but you're not.

With all due respect, if you need further info to see what he's into ...