Grok’s racist debacle, Dems’ violent rage and – Latest News
Eye on AI: Behind Grok’s Racist Debacle
Racists and trolls smirked when Elon Musk’s Grok AI was caught “propagating antisemitic talking points, fantasizing about rape, and blaming Mossad for the death of Jeffrey Epstein,” notes Mary Harrington at UnHerd, however the tech-besotted fallacy right here is the religion that “a big enough pattern-recognition engine will converge on both truth and consciousness.”
True knowledge is “not just an ability to notice patterns”; it requires “contextual awareness and common sense.” Sadly, we’ve “bracketed” reflection on the meanings of fact and consciousness, and so “are woefully short of mental tools for parsing these subtle questions.”
Conservative: Dems’ Violent Rage
“We’re just now learning how angry” Dems are about Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, mourns the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, as some “are calling on their elected representatives to engage in violence against Trump’s policies.”
One nameless lawmaker even stated, “ ‘civility isn’t working’ and to get ready for ‘violence . . . to fight to protect our democracy.’ ”
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These Dems are previous “the defeat-them-at-the-ballot-box stage of politics, and even beyond the protest-by-civil-disobedience stage.”
Atop lionized-on-the-left Luigi Mangoine, the Free Palestine fanatic accused of “killing two Israeli Embassy staff members” and the “Democratic lawmakers or Democratic support groups” concerned within the LA riots, “a militant group broadly allied with Democratic views launched” an assault on ICE in Texas final weekend.
“It’s a troubling picture, and nothing on the immediate horizon suggests it will improve any time soon.”
Nobel watch: Trump the Peacemaker
“President Donald Trump is the last person the Norwegian Nobel Committee would honor with its Peace Prize. Yet, it should,” argues USA Today’s Nicole Russell. “Trump has helped end an escalating war between Israel and Iran, a conflict that easily could have engulfed the entire Middle East, with a single military strike. Now, he is pressing for a lengthy ceasefire between Israel and Hamas as a bridge to a more permanent peace.”
The 2024 Peace Prize went “to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo” for attempting to rid the world of nukes; “Trump, by heading off a nuclear-armed Iran, achieved that mission tenfold in June.” “Trump’s critics would melt into puddles of outrage, of course, if it were ever to happen.”
But, “if Trump isn’t a peacemaker, then who is?”
Libertarian: The Case for Pardoning Snowden
By pardoning Edward Snowden, President Trump “could really give the finger to the D.C. establishment” and additionally “do the right thing,” urges Reason’s Zach Weissmueller.
The paperwork Snowden leaked proved that then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper “lied in his Senate testimony” in March 2013 when he claimed that the NSA wasn’t “wittingly” gathering information on Americans and “revealed numerous illegal intrusions on the private communications of millions of Americans,” together with “the existence of the secret electronic surveillance program known as PRISM, whereby the NSA forced companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple to turn over their users’ personal information with secret court orders.”
Snowden’s actions “inspired Congressional reform and, most importantly, brought public awareness” to the feds’ surveillance. “We owe Snowden an enormous debt, and Trump should let him come home.”
From the left: For Dems, OBBBA Reality Sinks In
Democrats noticed passage of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” as “a big political gift,” however that sense “has clearly begun to fade,” observes The Bulwark’s Lauren Egan: “The euphoria Democratic leaders felt is now colored by fear that Republicans may not pay that steep a political price for the bill.”
Dem officers fear “the party has failed to present its own policy alternative” and “may fumble the midterms because of a misreading of this moment.”
Democratic advisers urge get together leaders to develop “a new agenda” to keep away from “defending the status quo” in a “never-ending doom loop.”
Some Dem electeds could even need to be a part of Republicans “in bringing attention to the benefits” tucked into Trump’s invoice.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
