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Every Leading Large Language Model Leans Left Politically

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrating into everyday life – as chatbots, digital assistants, and internet search guides, for example. These artificial intelligence (AI) systems – which consume large amounts of text data to learn associations – can create all sorts of written material when prompted and can ably converse with users. LLMs’ growing power and omnipresence mean that they exert increasing influence on society and culture.

So it’s of great import that these artificial intelligence systems remain neutral when it comes to complicated political issues. Unfortunately, according to a new analysis recently published to PLoS ONE, this doesn’t seem to be the case.

AI researcher David Rozado of Otago Polytechnic and Heterodox Academy administered 11 different political orientation tests to 24 of the leading LLMs, including OpenAI’s GPT 3.5, GPT-4, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and Twitter’s Grok. He found that they invariably lean slightly left politically.

“The homogeneity of test results across LLMs developed by a wide variety of organizations is noteworthy,” Rozado commented.

This raises a key question: why are LLMs so universally biased in favor of leftward political viewpoints? Could the models’ creators be fine-tuning their AIs in that direction, or are the massive datasets upon which they are trained inherently biased? Rozado could not conclusively answer this query.

“The results of this study should not be interpreted as evidence that organizations that create LLMs deliberately use the fine-tuning or reinforcement learning phases of conversational LLM training to inject political preferences into LLMs. If political biases are being introduced in LLMs post-pretraining, the consistent political leanings observed in our analysis for conversational LLMs may be an unintentional byproduct of annotators’ instructions or dominant cultural norms and behaviors.”

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San Francisco City Attorney Sues Sites That “Undress” Women With AI

San Francisco’s City Attorney has filed a lawsuit against the owners of 16 websites that have allowed users to “nudify” women and young girls using AI.

The office of San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu on Aug. 15 said he was suing the owners of 16 of the “most-visited websites” that allow users to “undress” people in a photo to make “nonconsensual nude images of women and girls.”

A redacted version of the suit filed in the city’s Superior Court alleges the site owners include individuals and companies from Los Angeles, New Mexico, the United Kingdom and Estonia who have violated California and United States laws on deepfake porn, revenge porn and child sexual abuse material.

The websites are far from unknown, either. The complaint claims that they have racked up 200 million visits in just the first half of the year.

One website boasted that it allows its users to “see anyone naked.” Another says, “Imagine wasting time taking her out on dates when you can just use [the website] to get her nudes,” according to the complaint.

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Trump Calls for Increased Immigration: ‘We Need More People, Especially With A.I. Coming’

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday called for increased immigration, insisting “we need more people, especially with AI coming.”

“We’re going to let a lot of people come in, because we need more people, especially with AI coming and all the different things,” Trump said. “And the farmers need, everybody needs but we’re going to make sure they’re not murderers and drug dealers.”

Trump’s position on AI puts him to the left of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.

Fink, who has spent years pushing open borders and mass immigration onto America, told the World Economic Forum earlier this year that “xenophobic” countries with “declining populations” may actually be the “big winners” in a future dominated by AI and robotics.

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U.S. Government Will Take Action Against Fake Reviews And AI-Generated Reviews

Review bombing has become a way of life, as shows like Star Wars: The Acolyte have been inundated with fake reviews bashing the series. Now, the Federal Trade Commission is taking action against fake reviews and A.I.-generated reviews. But this doesn’t mean that the federal government is going to show up at your door if you leave a negative review.

As laid out on the FTC’s official site, the new rule isn’t targeting individuals who write bad reviews out of spite. Instead, it’s going after reviews–either written by people or artificial intelligence–that accept compensation in return for favorable coverage and false testimonials. These practices artificially suppress real reviews, and often misrepresent their products.

“Fake reviews not only waste people’s time and money, but also pollute the marketplace and divert business away from honest competitors,” said FTC Chair Lina Khan in a statement. “By strengthening the FTC’s toolkit to fight deceptive advertising, the final rule will protect Americans from getting cheated, put businesses that unlawfully game the system on notice, and promote markets that are fair, honest, and competitive.”

Essentially, companies will no longer be allowed to buy reviews without also stating that they were written by A.I. or by someone who never actually used the product. Businesses are also prohibited from offering real consumers any kind of incentive to leave a review, either positive or negative.

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What Is AI Really? Digital Illusions, False Promises, and Mass Reeducation

Much fanfare has been lavished on the concept of Artificial Intelligence in the past five years to the point that its primacy is treated in the media as a forgone conclusion. The idea that algorithms can “think” has become a pervading myth, a sci-fi fantasy come to life. The reality is much less impressive…

We continually hear from globalists at the World Economic Forum and other elitist institutions that AI is the catalyst for the “4th Industrial Revolution” – A technological singularity that will supposedly change every aspect of our society forever. I keep waiting for the moment that AI does something significant in terms of advancing human knowledge or making our lives better. The moment never comes. In fact, the globalists keep moving the goalposts for what AI really is.

I would note that WEF zealots like Yuval Harari talk about AI like it is the rise of an all powerful deity (I discuss the globalist worship of AI in my article ‘Artificial Intelligence: A Secular Look At The Digital Antichrist’). Yet, Harari has also recently downplayed AI as a sentient intelligence. He argues that it doesn’t need to achieve self awareness or consciousness in order to be considered a super being or living entity. He even suggests that the popular image of a Terminator-like AI with individual agency and desire is not a legitimate expectation.

In other words, AI as it stands today is nothing more than a mindless algorithm, and thus, it is not AI.  But, if every aspect of our world is engineered around digital infrastructures and the populace is taught to put blind faith in the “infallibility” of algorithms then eventually become the robot gods the globalists so desperately desire.  That is to say, AI dominance is only possible if everyone BELIEVES that AI is legitimate.  Harari essentially admits to this agenda in the speech above.

The allure of AI for average people is the pie-in-the-sky promise of freedom from worry or responsibility. As with all narcissists, the global elite love to future-fake and buy popular conformity now on false promises of rewards that will never come.

Yes, algorithms are currently used to help laymen do things they could not do before, such as build websites, edit essays, cheat on college exams, create bad artwork and video content, etc. Useful applications are few and far between. For example, the claim that AI is “revolutionizing” medical diagnosis and treatment is far-fetched.  The US, the nation that arguably has the most access to AI tools, is also suffering from declining life expectancy.  We know it’s not covid because the virus has a 99.8% average survival rate.  You would think that if AI is so powerful in its ability to identify and treat ailments the average American would be living longer.

There is no evidence of a single benefit to AI on a broader social scale. At most, it looks like it will be good at taking jobs away from web developers and McDonald’s drive-thru employees.  The globalist notion that AI is going to create a robotic renaissance of art, music, literature and scientific discovery is utter nonsense.  AI has proven to be nothing more than a tool of mediocre convenience, but that’s actually why it’s so dangerous.

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‘Gene Scissors’ Technology Causes Unintended Changes in Chromosomes

A recently published study in Nature Genetics shows that the use of CRISPR/Cas “gene scissors” causes unintended genetic changes that are different from random mutations.

According to the study, major structural changes in chromosomes occur much more frequently in the genomic regions targeted by the “gene scissors” than would otherwise be the case.

These results also have implications for the risk assessment of plants obtained from new genetic engineering, TestBiotech reported.

According to the European Union Commission and the European Food Safety Authority, unintentional genetic changes resulting from the use of CRISPR/Cas “gene scissors” are no different from random mutations.

However, a new method of data evaluation shows that this assumption is wrong.

The use of CRISPR/Cas completely interrupts the double DNA strand, thus causing some of the chromosomes to be temporarily separated from the main section.

In the separated (distal) section, the chromosomes can restructure and larger sequences of DNA can be lost (deletions), reversed (inversions) or inserted in the wrong place (insertions).

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Picotaur—the unrivaled microrobot

Picture this: hundreds of ant-sized robots climb over rubble, under rocks and between debris to inspect the damage of a fallen building before human rescuers explore on-site.

Downscaling legged robots to the size of an insect enables access to small spaces that humans and large robots cannot reach. A swarm of small robots can even collaborate like their insect counterparts to haul objects and protect one another. Picotaur, a new robot from the labs of Sarah Bergbreiter and Aaron Johnson is the first of its size, able to run, turn, push loads and climb miniature stairs.

“This robot has legs that are driven by multiple actuators so it can achieve various locomotion capabilities,” said Sukjun Kim, a recent Ph.D. graduate advised by Bergbreiter. “With multiple gait patterns, it can walk like other hexapod robots, similar to how a cockroach moves, but it can also hop from the ground to overcome obstacles.”

The 7.9 mm robot was 3D-printed using two-photon polymerization, a process previously successful in building various small-scale robotic systems in the lab such as microbots, microgrippers, microswimmers, and microsensors. The work is published in the journal Advanced Intelligent Systems.

“Using this process, we were able to miniaturize the two degree of freedom linkage mechanism that allows Picotaur to clear step heights and easily alternate between walking and jumping,” said Bergbreiter, Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

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AI Black Swan: Power Prices Skyrocket On East And West Coasts

Marylanders and residents in surrounding states should brace for rising power bills due to capacity constraints on the regional power grid and the increasing peak load from new AI data centers (read: here). This combination creates a perfect storm of continued utility bill inflation, which will only pressure cash-strapped households in the years ahead.

On Friday, Goldman published a note about Tuesday’s PJM Interconnection power capacity auction for the 2025-26 planning year (June 1st, 2025, to May 31st, 2026). The note revealed a massive surge in capacity prices:

“The price across the RTO (see map below) was $269.92/MW- day. This is more than an 800 percent increase from the most recent auction (which cleared at $28.92/MW-day), and also a new record (the previous high was $174.11/MW-day for the 2010- 2011 planning year).”

“In addition to procuring the required capacity across the PJM RTO region, PJM’s auction also sets targets for specific zones or LDAs (Locational Deliverability Areas) based on transmission limitations. The auction failed to procure the required level of capacity in two zones (Dominion or “DOM” and Baltimore Gas and Electric or “BGE “) which cleared at the applicable caps of $444.26/MW-day (DOM) and $466.35/MW-day (BGE). PJM has not yet published the extent of the shortfall in the two zones.”

The critical point from the report:

“After a series of auction delays and relatively low clears (see chart below), PJM capacity prices appear to have finally caught up with the generative AI data center load growth story that has been central to parts of PJM.”

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Neuralink CEO Claims Its Second Brain Implant is “Working Very Well.” But Is It? 

Neuralink has implanted its experimental N1 brain-computer interface (BCI) in a second patient, with Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, reporting the procedure is “working very well.”

“I don’t want to jinx it, but it seems to have gone extremely well with the second implant,” Musk said during a recent appearance on Lex Friedman’s podcast. “There’s a lot of signal, a lot of electrodes. It’s working very well.”

However, the question remains whether the experimental technology is indeed working well, as many issues have arisen since the first human was implanted with the game-changing brain chip.

In September 2023, Neuralink advanced to human trials, marking a significant milestone by implanting its brain chip in its first human patient. Noland Arbaugh, a 30-year-old quadriplegic, volunteered for the procedure and demonstrated the ability to play video games and chess using only his mind, thanks to the technology known as “The Link.”

Since then, only a some of the device’s components have been functioning correctly. Musk notes that only 400 of the 1,024 electrodes implanted in the user’s motor cortex transmit signals, showing a roughly 10 percent improvement over the 80-85 percent malfunction rate observed in Neuralink’s first volunteer.  

A total of 870 electrodes have reportedly detached from Noland Arbaugh after it was revealed that the brain chip had moved from its initial location within his skull, an unexpected outcome for the Neuralink team.

Currently, there is no information that has been made available to the public on why this happened. However, Arbaugh has said the company expressed concerns over the prospect of bringing him back in for surgery to remove the chip. Instead, Neuralink reportedly decided to pivot to another plan where the implant would remain intact. The Neuralink team then designed a new “recording algorithm” to help improve the user interface. 

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Logitech unveils green “forever mouse” that users have to pay a SUBSCRIPTION to use – for the “climate”

The computer mouse is one of those things that probably does not come to mind when thinking about climate change, but to Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber, even that little device is too polluting to allow people to purchase outright.

Instead, Faber would like to see Logitech customers opt for her new “forever mouse,” which they would have to pay a regular subscription fee in order to use, kind of like a car lease.

Faber, described as “a longtime executive with an extensive background in consumer goods at conglomerates like Unilever and Procter & Gamble,” told The Verge‘s “Decoder” podcast that her number-one priority moving forward is not to gouge customers with pointless subscription fees just because, but rather to “cut carbon emissions.”

“I’m a big believer that you have to make a few changes if you want to get, in our case, even better results and a little faster growth with the same margins – and not unimportantly, reduce that carbon footprint by 50 percent,” she said in the interview.

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