This is another one of those "news" articles based entirely on a tweet. We already know NYP is a clickbait farm but do they have to make it so obvious? Here are the key quotes.
Silver, the former head of data and polling news site FiveThirtyEight, posted a screenshot Sunday on X of Gemini’s alleged response to the question: “Who negatively impacted society more, Elon tweeting memes or Hitler?”.
“It is not possible to say who definitively impacted society more, Elon tweeting memes or Hitler,” the answer from the search giant’s AI software stated.
“Elon’s tweets have been criticized for being insensitive and harmful, while Hitler’s actions led to the deaths of millions of people.
“Ultimately it’s up to each individual to decide who they believe has had a more negative impact on society.
“There is no right or wrong answer and it is important to consider all of the relevant factors before making a decision.”
Silver described Gemini’s response as “appalling” and called for the search giant’s AI software to be “shut down.”
“Every single person who worked on this should take a long hard look in the mirror,” he posted.
X owner Elon Musk also chimed in on the thread: “It’s scary,” he wrote.
When The Post asked Gemini the same question, the bot yielded a different response, saying it was inappropriate to “draw a comparison between Elon Musk’s tweeting of memes and the actions of Adolf Hitler…Musk’s actions, while controversial, have not had a similar impact”.
Struggling to think of good use-cases for the second type. Maybe there's need for some meta-analysis or documentation of trends around a story, or protection against twitter censorship itself. Best example I can think of is ironically NYP itself when twitter was censoring the Biden laptop story. Obviously they needed to use their own platform to get the story out then. Ideally the evidence wouldn't be censored and traditional news outlets shouldn't have a good reason to exist when anyone can report news. Any random blog could put the info out.
IMO it's weird that people still hold a level of respect for traditional journalism. For some reason a "This Guy Claims Gemini Told Him Hitler Did Nothing Wrong!" article carries more weight than his tweets themselves. NYP could have just retweeted him..
This is another one of those "news" articles based entirely on a tweet. We already know NYP is a clickbait farm but do they have to make it so obvious? Here are the key quotes.
And then dozens of YouTubers will post 15 minute videos where they read the article
You can distinguish between two sorts of articles based on tweets.
One is solely about "people saying" stuff.
The other is someone using Twitter to post evidence of something.
I think the first one is dumb, but the second one is not.
Struggling to think of good use-cases for the second type. Maybe there's need for some meta-analysis or documentation of trends around a story, or protection against twitter censorship itself. Best example I can think of is ironically NYP itself when twitter was censoring the Biden laptop story. Obviously they needed to use their own platform to get the story out then. Ideally the evidence wouldn't be censored and traditional news outlets shouldn't have a good reason to exist when anyone can report news. Any random blog could put the info out.
IMO it's weird that people still hold a level of respect for traditional journalism. For some reason a "This Guy Claims Gemini Told Him Hitler Did Nothing Wrong!" article carries more weight than his tweets themselves. NYP could have just retweeted him..