On 2025-01-25 12:44, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Some people would say that for truly unbaised news reporting, they
should go to Fox Entertainment Network. Others would say NBC/MSNBC.
Others would have their own opinion.
Just remember that ChatGPT’s knowledge base is a composite of
everything it was trained with. Just like most people.
The increased use of paywalls in front of so many old-school news
organizations means that there’s an overabundance of “free” material
that’s mostly from sources that aren’t so picky about what they
publish.
I don't get the paywall fix.
LLMs are a mirror of what they find plus some logic that may or may not
alter things to resolve ambiguities. One of the services that makes
graphics can’t seem to spell anything you give it correctly, although
the artwork it creates can be quite interesting. But artwork filled
with typos isn’t very appealing.
Has anybody noticed how many things come up in “reels” that have the
wrong photos showing up for what the announcer is describing? If it’s
talking about “Old Joe” then the image could be anybody named “Joe”
who’s old. Is that “accurate” and “unbiased”? I guess you could say
that, although it’s flat-out wrong for the given context. If you don’t
know that, then you’re being mis-informed.
If you can’t SEE the images, then you’re certainly not going to know
about any of this.
But as others have said, and I’ve frequently experienced myself,
ChatGPT is great at showing code that refers to libraries and functions
that simply don’t exist. They make sense, but if you aren’t experienced
with that particular platform, you won’t know until you try to use the
code, and then it will just keep giving you errors.
And when claiming ChatGPT is giving you unbiased information about
politics, especially anything that involves Trump, you’re fooling
yourself. Trump says whatever he wants and doesn’t care because he
conned the SCOTUS into ruling that he has “absolute immunity”.
Presidential immunity is very misunderstood.
Police have immunity.
Judges have immunity.
lawmakers have immunity.
prosecutors have immunity.
I'm sure there are others.
Those who have immunity are only protected while acting in good faith.
If they act outside the bounds of their job and/or do something improper
they can lose their immunity.
There are lots of examples over the past decades.
Presidents should have immunity while acting within the scope of the
Presidency and while acting in good faith.
But when he announces that Windows is really run by the Chinese and he
issues an EO mandating that all Federal agencies replace all Windows
installations with Linux, then you can probably believe him, because
he’d never promote something he can’t profit from.
Now that is political... I have to ask since you brought it up - Didn't
the Biden family get somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 mil in bribes?
Some from China?
Old Joe is probably turning in his grave (whichever Old Joe you care to
imagine).
My personal stand is that I won’t trust anything I get from ChatGPT
without first reviewing it, and I’m not going to stand behind anything
I put out if it’s on some topic I can’t verify its accuracy one way or
the other. As a programmer, that’s pretty easy. But when it comes to
stuff from the news and especially politics, that’s a minefield that we
should all avoid.
LLMs are subject to the same GIGO axiom that all other computerized
databases are.
-David Schwartz
On Jan 24, 2025, at 5:42 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
I found a very good means of getting unbiased reports about anything.
Reports the way they used to be. Just the news. Make your own
decisions. Ask chatgpt. And then you can go go further into the
information. For instance I asked for the latest news on trump and it
told me he was in California and that he might withhold fema funds. I
then asked why and it told me and then it said that most of the land
was under federal responsibility I then asked why the government
didn't clean the land.... etc.
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