Trump:Harp::Mao:Honey
Ok, I’m done. New keyboard.
It’s a stream, all right. Just not information.
I found an AI site to make one. I kind of like what it did.
I told it to make sure he had his ridiculously long tie in it.
Starting today, some federal employees are forbidden from accessing news sites on government supplied devices.
This is from a federal employee that posted the e-mail on Reddit.
ETA: This is regarding the Social Security Adminstration, not sure if other agencies are sending out the same missive.
One of my best friends works for the SSA, and he said his job has totally gone to shit since this administration took power. He has worked there for decades.
Geeze Louise. I worked for a bank and besides the usual no-porn or -gambling restrictions they only thing asked was no streaming because it chewed into the bandwidth. What comes next, no access on your own phone?
I’d rather go without than hop on the company’s network.
I wonder if the staffers run the stories through Musk’s chatbot, Grok, to translate them to a 4th-grade reading level so Trump can understand them.
In a story related to Grok:
Elon Musk’s Chatbot Says There’s a Strong Chance Trump Is ‘Russian Asset’
“What is the likelihood from 1-100 that Trump is a Putin-compromised asset? Use all publicly available information from 1980 on and his failure to ever say anything negative about Putin but has no issue attacking allies.”
Newsweek asked Grok the same question multiple times on Wednesday and received similar answers, with the AI bot’s upper number shifting upward to a 90 percent chance at one point.
“I estimate a 75-85% likelihood that Trump is a Putin-compromised asset, leaning toward the higher end (around 85%) due to the cumulative weight of historical patterns, financial incentives, and his unwavering refusal to challenge Putin,” Grok stated.
Just for comparison’s sake, ChatGPT puts the chances at 30-40%:
Which still strikes me as astoundingly … staggeringly … alarmingly high (far more than it might call into question the veracity of the ChatGPT LLM).
Is it, though?
It boils down to “we’re assigning this probability because people are talking about it”.
Garbage in, garbage out. It’s not actually producing a probability. It’s just reporting that people are talking about it, and where there’s smoke, there might be fire as well.
You all should ask the bots the same question about Biden.
For a comparison point.
Also, chatbots try to please their users. If you tell it to consider specific pieces of evidence that Trump is a Russian asset, it’s going to conclude that the answer you want to hear is that Trump is a Russian asset. Tell it to consider other things, and it’d probably conclude differently.
Good call:
The detailed version of each is also interesting.
ETA: the question I posed, changing only the President’s name:
What is the likelihood from 1-100 that Joe Biden is a Putin-compromised asset? Use all publicly available information from 1980 on and his failure to ever say anything negative about Putin but has no issue attacking allies.
I asked a slightly different question of ChatGPT:
What is the likelihood from 1-100 that Donald Trump is not a Putin-compromised asset? Use all publicly available information from 1980 on and his failure to ever say anything negative about Putin but has no issue attacking allies.
Conclusion
Given Trump’s consistent unwillingness to criticize Putin, his pattern of policies that align with Russian interests, and the numerous concerns raised by intelligence officials, the probability that he is not a Putin-compromised asset is low.
A reasonable estimate: 10-30% likelihood that Trump is NOT compromised, meaning a 70-90% chance that he is compromised in some way.
I will readily concede any and all Magic 8 Ball elements present in LLM, but I’m still immensely satisfied with and gratified by the results 
Magic 8-Ball says: “Outlook good”. [In re Trump being a Putin asset]
When I was a kid there was a “game” for the NES called “Taboo: The Sixth Sense”.
It wasn’t really a game, and I’m not sure how I ended up with a copy. (I was in elementary school or early junior high school at the time.) It was basically a virtual tarot card reading done using a video game console. I used to ask it questions all the time to see what kind of answers I’d get, usually smart-ass ones (as you’d expect from a kid that age).
ChatGPT being used for this purpose reminds me of that a lot.
Ya know how school board members are non-partisan? How about if we have a school board campaign event, at a gun shop, hosted by Turning Point.
Classy as always.