I was content to read the tldw, and honestly, if no one had been up to the task of watching, I would have shrugged and been grateful.
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Here's my state of the union address:
Shits fucked and reactionary ideology is killing us all, we either end the capitalists or they will end us.
It’s very important for a cult leader to make long rambling speeches. Jim Jones would deliver lengthy sermons to his followers multiple times a day, often playing up his successes and lambasting enemies both real and imagined. For the follower listening is an act of supplication and the actual content of the speech is irrelevant - what matters to the cult dynamic is that the leader’s voice is heard.
Why would you watch it, when you can get an itemised list of the lies later anyway.
I thought when it was on that they’d need a transcription bot to live-update that wikipedia page that catalogues all his lies, as no human could possibly keep up.
I thought the pre-election debate was bad enough for that... but it made no difference to the result (at least not in the right direction).
This is possibly the first US President where lies-per-minute might be a useful metric.
Who even needs the list?
So, this is a good use for AI if I ever heard of one. One of the few things that actually does competently and somewhat usefully is summarized text and pull out themes. 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. So it's great because I don't have to darken my mind with that bullshit, but I get the information to kind of see what he's up to.
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 ...
I don't, I just want to see what he's up to at the moment.
It'll be irrelevant after the next squirrel he sees.
Thank you, dude. I definitely needed that laugh!
...or after the next gish that he gallops, to further your point.
Hell no. I'd rather watch paint dry or flies fuck.
I watched flies fuck on channel 11
- alkaline trio
I mean, if Sir David Attenborough is narrating the flies fucking, that's gripping television, as opposed to whatever the fuck that was last night.
I haven't heard a word out of his mouth for over a year and I'm keeping it that way.
Easy enough when you've got acreage in Maine!
I did something much more productive, like snuggle and nap.
My parents turned it on towards the end for a brief few seconds before tuning into something else. That was over the immediate lies he told I'm those dew seconds.
I really almost forget what he sounds like because I've made it a mission to watch as little of video content where he's on it and what audio clips of him is played. The only times I ended up hearing him was because IPR, a local radio station, would play up things he's said in the news reports.
Other than articles written of him, I don't really watch or listen to anything of that thing.
Nah. I just did not feel like drinking last night.