2025-02-02

Quote of the day - 01-29-2025.

Dimitri Lascaris

"You can't make this shit up."

Amazing how no matter how outlandish our imaginations seem ...

... It's always reality that goes to the extreme.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/pro-israel-ai-bot-goes-off-the-rails-calls-idf-soldiers-colonizers-and-demands-palestinian-statehood/ar-AA1yenM9 

Pro-Israel AI Bot Goes Off the Rails, Calls IDF Soldiers "Colonizers" and Demands Palestinian Statehood

Critical Thinking

An AI-powered social media bot seemingly deployed to boost pro-Israel narratives online appears to be going wildly off script, instead criticizing the Israeli and American governments in strongly-worded missives.

As the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports, an account called @FactFinderAI X on X-formerly-Twitter appears to be one of many designed to bolster pro-Israel digital campaigning efforts using generative AI.

Except, like a deeply confused activist, the bot keeps radically switching sides — even, in one instance flagged by Haaretz, denouncing the Israeli Defense Force as "white colonizers in apartheid Israel."

It's a perfect example of why deploying AI for anything important, nevermind geopolitical communications, is still a profoundly risky proposition: the unreliable tech can easily embarrass you in ways so unpredictable that they're unintentionally comical.

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