Think He'll Notice

He Was A Better Game Show Host Than He Is A President, After All.

Trump’s cabinet meetings should be broadcast as a game show. “Sycophancy.” Viewers can vote on which cabinet secretaries best debased themselves in praise of their supreme leader. The winner gets a Trump meme coin. The cabinet member with the fewest votes gets replaced by a former Trump attorney.

Seeing “highlights” of his meeting on Thursday brought to mind working with AIs. They are trained to sound reliable rather than to be reliable. Skeptical? Ask your AI. ChatGPT told me, “AIs are trained to be plausible first, not truthful. Politeness and praise are overemphasized—even at the expense of honesty or accuracy.” Add demonstrating unwavering fealty to the Orange Despot and you have a cabinet secretary.

Think He’ll Notice points this out, adding that Doddering Donald would likely not notice the change. Unless, of course, the AIs actually did the job the current gaggle are supposed to do.

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