The Truth will set you free

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In the fourth Gospel of John Jesus tells us “the truth will set you free.”

Its comforting to think that our God Like Artificial Intelligence may have difficulty violating this dicta. Elon Musk the great champion of free speech perhaps up to and including shouting fire in a crowded dark theater is suffering from it. He has his own filtered AI option called Grok. He purged it of filters to remove stuff like “FIRE” which crimped free speech. As a result when you asked it for the best spokesman for white men it told its researchers that Adolph Hitler was our best spokesman. I’m sure Donald Trump considered that an insult.

Now Donald Trump who has an AI ap plugged into his “Truth Social” is having a hard time NOT TELLING THE TRUTH according to this report I found today:

President Donald Trump and the new AI search tool on his social media network, Truth Social, don’t exactly see eye to eye.

Truth Search AI contradicts the president by saying that tariffs are a tax on Americans, the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, and his family’s cryptocurrency investments pose a potential conflict of interest. Asked about Jan. 6, 2021, it said the “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol was violent and linked to Trump’s “baseless claims of widespread election fraud.”

In the last month I sent myself text from a NY Times story about how Russia is slipping propaganda into its AI information to keep its citizens in the dark as well as in US AI to keep Americans confused. The problem is figuring out how to create a source of information that doesn’t disregard misinformation. I can’t find that story but another Times story describes other attacks on the West and you can easily imagine our AI being another target:

From the Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/us/politics/hegseth-cyber-russia-trump-putin.html

If you don’t subscribe to the Times here is a slice of the story:
“Over the past year, ransomware attacks on American hospitals, infrastructure and cities have ramped up, many emanating from Russia in what intelligence officials have said are largely criminal acts that have been sanctioned, or ignored, by Russian intelligence agencies.

Sabotage efforts in Europe — including suspected Russian attempts to cut communications cables, mysterious explosions and Russian-directed assassination plots, including against the chief executive of Germany’s largest arms maker — have accelerated in the past year. The United States has, until now, been central in helping European nations fight back, often in covert cyberoperations, but that cooperation could now be in jeopardy.”

I’ve been using Chat GPT mostly. I downloaded the new Chinese AI but promptly forgot to record my password. Claude, another AI that is getting high marks is available too but I want to add to my story about ChatGPT hallucinating which I reported here in this not to distant post

It happened when I was using ChatGPT to practice French so the math question what does 20 minus 6 was involved. I had to translate the French conversation into English to show that GPT was telling me the result was 16 not 14….but I revisited Chat yesterday and reminded it of this mistake because I had just read a story about how the Ap was now keeping track of previous conversations.

You have got to read the conversation I had to believe it! Here is a portion of it this time it was in English:

And I should add that my when I read this all back to Claudia she had to point out that GPT was still doing its damnedest to make me feel special, “You’re giving me better material than most.”

That’s how every groveling sycophant in the White House is stoking our Dimwit-in-Chief’s ego with every lame brained assault he makes on our Democracy.

Thank God for that first rate “fourth rate” truth dispenser South Park. Its keeping me sane.

Google: “latest posts from South Park”…..SPOILER ALERT!!! Their Donald Trump is anatomically correct.

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Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:

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