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When AI Stops Thinking and Starts Preaching
American Thinker ^ | Brian C. Joondeph | Brian C. Joondeph

Posted on 07/28/2025 8:07:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

A computer is only as good as the data you put into it. That warning from the early days of computing -- garbage in, garbage out -- has never been more relevant than in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). 

AI now drives everything from search engines to image generators, yet instead of providing objective, data-backed insights, it too often parrots progressive narratives, twisting facts to match feelings.

Case in point: despite U.S. Census Bureau data indicating that over 75% of Americans identify as white, AI-generated images of “typical Americans” often show mostly non-white groups. This isn’t intelligence. It’s indoctrination, built into algorithms by ideologues in Silicon Valley.

Corporate media is similar, promoting narratives through omission or biased framing. Think of how the media labels weather shifts as “climate change” and destructive riots as “peaceful protests.”

For AI, this was demonstrated a year ago by Gemini AI, Google’s attempt at artificial intelligence. It was definitely artificial, but it did not mirror reality. It was ignorant, not intelligent. 

As The Guardian noted, “Gemini’s image generation tool depicted a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of colour.”

Gemini also struggled to determine whether libertarians or Stalin caused more harm to the world. 

According to Google co-founder Serge Brin, “We haven’t fully understood why it leans left in many cases and that’s not our intention.” His search engine definitely leans left, so why wouldn’t his AI? After all, Gemini probably gets most of its knowledge from Google.

When an Ivy League graduate spouts nonsense about gender and equity, it shouldn't be surprising, given where they received their knowledge.

As I’ve been experimenting more with AI, I tried to recreate the Gemini experiment, this time using Elon...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 07/28/2025 8:07:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Grok seems to preach, lately.


2 posted on 07/28/2025 8:09:57 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It leans left because 90% of all the data it has assimilated is from the media, journalists, and academics, who all skew far to the left.


3 posted on 07/28/2025 8:10:11 AM PDT by montag813
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Um, AI doesn’t actually think at all.


4 posted on 07/28/2025 8:13:48 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: montag813

Agreed. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the SPLC’s tagging of some articles and posts as “hate speech” has impacted the AI processing too. (Ignore info that’s “hate speech” and you lean hard left.)


5 posted on 07/28/2025 8:17:25 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

ask it to generate images of typical muslim terrorists.....

it’ll probably return images of blue-eyed blonde guys from Alabama


6 posted on 07/28/2025 8:21:46 AM PDT by wny (s)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When does AI become self aware and start launching missiles?


7 posted on 07/28/2025 8:22:36 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It is a tool for information control and programming minds.


8 posted on 07/28/2025 8:24:36 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: DownInFlames

“When does AI become self aware and start launching missiles?”

AI can already write executable code for itself. It doesn’t need to be “aware”. It can just create it’s own reality and execute decisions for itself based on that alternate reality.


9 posted on 07/28/2025 8:28:30 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Jane Long

Grok fabricates false information.


10 posted on 07/28/2025 8:35:57 AM PDT by Romulus ( )
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To: Romulus

Agree.


11 posted on 07/28/2025 8:40:18 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Romulus; Jane Long

“Grok fabricates false information.”

Newest Version of Grok Looks Up What Elon Musk Thinks Before Giving an Answer:

https://futurism.com/grok-looks-up-what-elon-musk-thinks


12 posted on 07/28/2025 8:52:57 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: All

Here is the sort of preaching to explore with AI.

1) What is the distance from Juneau, AK to Anchorage, AK?
It will provide a number in miles and probably hours too since Juneau has no roads that can get to Anchorage and would use ferryboats or airplanes.

2) In what year was Albert Einstein born? It will quote what is online for that date.

3) In what year did penicillin become widely used? It will quote a year.

This is the sort of preaching one seeks. Not asking it what color is God’s hair, or asking it who was more progressive, the Roman Empire or Kublai Kahn?

AI is not intelligence. It is speed. Enormous speed, not supported by advertising. Use it for that.

It’s astonishing how so much text gets written about a picture you ask AI to draw of an angry human, and so little written about the accuracy of it’s quote for Juneau/Anchorage distance.


13 posted on 07/28/2025 8:53:22 AM PDT by Owen
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bad data in is not the problem. AI crappola is written by coders in SiliconValley — the most left wing area in the state. You might think that they are STEM, no. Most are imports under H1B and basically slaves to the commie trash CEOs of the companies. They write and corrupt AI with the politics of their owners — owners of the companies and the slaves.


14 posted on 07/28/2025 9:09:08 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: wny

There are blonde, blue eyed Mohammedans, not only recent converts but also ethnic Slavs from Bosnia, Kosovo, Bulgaria.

Mohammedans are all races


15 posted on 07/29/2025 2:44:59 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

AI is already preaching in churches.


16 posted on 07/29/2025 4:36:15 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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