Halluzinationspräsidentschaft

Mike Masnick:

But over the last few months, it has occurred to me that, for all the hype about generative AI systems hallucinating, we pay much less attention to the fact that the current President does the same thing, nearly every day. The more you look at the way Donald Trump spews utter nonsense answers to questions, the more you begin to recognize a clear pattern — he answers questions in a manner quite similar to early versions of ChatGPT. The facts don’t matter, the language choices are a mess, but they are all designed to present a plausible-sounding answer to the question, based on no actual knowledge, nor any concern for whether or not the underlying facts are accurate.

This pattern becomes impossible to unsee once you start looking for it. In his recent Time Magazine interview, Trump demonstrates exactly how this works. The process is remarkably consistent:

1. A journalist asks a specific question about policy or events
2. Trump, clearly unfamiliar with the actual details, activates his response generator
3. Out comes a stream of confident-sounding words that maintain just enough semantic connection to the question to seem like an answer
4. The response optimizes for what Trump thinks his audience wants to hear, rather than for accuracy or truth

Wegen der (noch) fehlenden Majestätsbeleidigungsgesetzgebung in den Vereinigten Staaten wird der GRÖPAZ von seinen Kritikerinnen regelmäßig als rückwärtsgewandt, unterinformiert und geistig wenig beweglich geschmäht, dabei ist er mit der Inszenierung einer Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency künstlerisch und politisch ganz auf der Höhe der Zeit.

Update: Im politisch-technologischen Bereich ist die ehemalige Führungsmacht der freien Welt offenbar immer noch Vorbild für Europa.