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usonian

(21,602 posts)
7. He's a chatbot. Probably programmed by ChatGOP.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 08:41 AM
Oct 7
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20703078

And Miller's pulling the strings on his rotted corpse.


https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/

Judge for yourself.

Tue, Apr 29th 2025 09:34am - Mike Masnick

We generally understand how LLM hallucinations work. An AI model tries to generate what seems like a plausible response to whatever you ask it, drawing on its training data to construct something that sounds right. The actual truth of the response is, at best, a secondary consideration.

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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.

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This is not the response of someone working from actual knowledge or policy understanding. Instead, it’s precisely how an LLM operates: taking a prompt (the question about job losses) and generating text based on some core parameters (the “system prompt” that requires deflecting blame and asserting greatness).

The hallmarks of AI generation are all here:
• Confident assertions without factual backing
• Meandering diversions that maintain loose semantic connection to the topic
• Pattern-matching to previous responses (“ripped off,” “billions of dollars”)
• Optimization for what sounds good rather than what’s true




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He very well may be in declining health, but I don't think those texts prove much of anything. bearsfootball516 Oct 7 #1
Yes, I think the point of the piece is that Trump's switch to text interviews calls into question Prairie Gates Oct 7 #2
I agree with your assessment. Gimpyknee Oct 7 #9
Let's all just take one second to clear our minds and imagine a world in which.... Ol Janx Spirit Oct 7 #17
so, either Trump was typing or voice to text interprets his word salad correctly. bucolic_frolic Oct 7 #3
Trump and Tapper. tanyev Oct 7 #4
When has Trump ever refused doing one of his trademarked bullshit call-in interviews? sop Oct 7 #5
As opposed to his coherent statements the past x years? kerouac2 Oct 7 #6
He's a chatbot. Probably programmed by ChatGOP. usonian Oct 7 #7
Jake was obviously communicating with President Miller, not his puppet. mwb970 Oct 7 #8
Dumpy's health problems are not conspiracies. Clouds Passing Oct 7 #10
Really. When these people go down, we need to make sure the wealthy people behind travelingthrulife Oct 7 #15
It's in the cards that JD Vance will be the "Big Guy" shortly. But,.. chouchou Oct 7 #11
They (3 crypto bros) are ready and waiting. usonian Oct 7 #12
All three are short-sighted fools. travelingthrulife Oct 7 #16
White supremacist Trump is inviting more. usonian Oct 7 #18
Texting while on dialysis? surfered Oct 7 #13
Jake Tapper: Fascist enabler. Miguelito Loveless Oct 7 #14
Think there will be another book coming displacedvermoter Oct 7 #20
Is he dead yet? Wicked Blue Oct 7 #19
He's not declined that fast ... JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 7 #21
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