Trump is tedious to listen to for 30 seconds, so signing up for nearly two hours of his worst hits didn’t seem a good use of time.

I seriously have no idea who the audience was for that.

  • TaldenNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    Why would you watch it, when you can get an itemised list of the lies later anyway.

      • ɔiƚoxɘup@beehaw.orgEnglish
        21·
        2 months ago

        So, this is a good use for AI if I ever heard of one. One of the few things that actually does competently and somewhat usefully is summarized text and pull out themes. So I took the entire transcript, dumped it into AI, and asked what the racist dog whistles were in the speech, and it told me. So it’s great because I don’t have to darken my mind with that bullshit, but I get the information to kind of see what he’s up to.

        • spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.orgEnglish
          9·
          2 months ago

          So I took the entire transcript, dumped it into AI, and asked what the racist dog whistles were in the speech, and it told me.

          right…and then you read the transcript yourself and/or watched the video, to confirm that the summary it gave you was accurate, right?

          …right?

          because if Trump used 9 racist dogwhistles in his speech, and the “AI” summary gave you a list of 10, and one of them was hallucinated, how would you know?

          you’re using the “AI” as a confirmation bias machine. you expect there to be dogwhistles, so you ask it for dogwhistles, and it tells you, “yup, here’s the dogwhistles”.

          try this. pretend you’re a MAGA true believer, take that exact same transcript, and ask the “AI” for a list of ways that the speech demonstrates Trump’s commitment to America First. or for ways that Trump is making America safer, or improving the economy, or whatever.

          no matter what you ask it, it’s just going to fill in the blanks of what it thinks you want to hear.

          humans are really good at confirmation bias, as it turns out. you don’t need to outsource it to a warehouse full of GPUs. you can just do it with your boring old analog brain.

          I get the information to kind of see what he’s up to.

          your news diet is full of empty calories. you read that “AI” summary and you feel like you’re better informed. but you’re not.

    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I thought when it was on that they’d need a transcription bot to live-update that wikipedia page that catalogues all his lies, as no human could possibly keep up.

      • TaldenNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I thought the pre-election debate was bad enough for that… but it made no difference to the result (at least not in the right direction).

        This is possibly the first US President where lies-per-minute might be a useful metric.