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In reply to the discussion: So this is not uninteresting: [View all]usonian
(19,221 posts)2. The orange person you are referring to is a chatbot.
The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/
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 dont 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:
A journalist asks a specific question about policy or events
Trump, clearly unfamiliar with the actual details, activates his response generator
Out comes a stream of confident-sounding words that maintain just enough semantic connection to the question to seem like an answer
The response optimizes for what Trump thinks his audience wants to hear, rather than for accuracy or truth
You can pick almost any exchange from the interview to see this in action. He hits his talking points, but when pushed on things, he just starts making random wild claims with no basis in reality.
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:
A journalist asks a specific question about policy or events
Trump, clearly unfamiliar with the actual details, activates his response generator
Out comes a stream of confident-sounding words that maintain just enough semantic connection to the question to seem like an answer
The response optimizes for what Trump thinks his audience wants to hear, rather than for accuracy or truth
You can pick almost any exchange from the interview to see this in action. He hits his talking points, but when pushed on things, he just starts making random wild claims with no basis in reality.
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This is the best explanation of his speech I've seen. It summarizes him perfectly
ms liberty
Jun 19
#40
You might be interested in this old article, if you haven't already seen it:
eppur_se_muova
Jun 20
#46
She's still at home with me; I'm the caretaker-in-chief. I will care for her until I can't.
Magoo48
Jun 19
#15