The AP reports that djt signed an EO that aims to whitewash AI (artificial intelligence) to make reality a better fit with MAGA's fake reality:
Trump signs executive order on developing
artificial intelligence ‘free from ideological bias’
djt signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday that will revoke past government policies his order says “act as barriers to American AI innovation.”
To maintain global leadership in AI technology, “we must develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas,” the EO says.
The new order doesn’t name which existing policies are hindering AI development but sets out to track down and review “all policies, directives, regulations, orders, and other actions taken” as a result of former President Joe Biden’s sweeping AI executive order of 2023, which Trump rescinded Monday. Any of those Biden-era actions must be suspended if they don’t fit Trump’s new directive that AI should “promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security.”
Well, there we have it fact and history fans! djt and MAGA elites are gonna do their damnedest to whitewash all inconvenient human knowledge and thinking.
Does anyone still reject the idea that djt and MAGA elites are trying to establish a corrupt as hell dictatorship built on bad things like demagoguery, lies, slanders, crackpottery and vicious bigotry? Yes, some still disbelieve?
OK, fair enough. I'll keep positing the evidence as it gushes out, as long as it gushes out, so long as I can still comment thereon.
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Hey Germaine, you boob, why did you say so long as I can still comment thereon?
Here's why (and I'm not a boob): Techdirt writes:
Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Act For Censorship,
Just As We Warned
During his address to Congress this week, Donald Trump endorsed the Take It Down Act while openly declaring his plans to abuse it: “And I’m going to use that bill for myself too, if you don’t mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody.”
(You might think a former president openly declaring his intent to abuse a content moderation law would be big news. The media, apparently swamped with other Trump outbursts, didn’t even seem to notice. [good point!])This is, of course, exactly what we (and many others) warned about in December when discussing the Take It Down Act. The bill aims to address a legitimate problem — non-consensual intimate imagery (revenge porn) — but does so with a censorship mechanism so obviously prone to abuse that the president couldn’t even wait until it passed to announce his plans to misuse it.
And Congress laughed. Literally.Congress (specifically Senators Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar) looked at all this work and said “nah, let’s just make websites legally liable if they don’t take down anything someone claims is NCII [Non-Consensual Intimate Image] within 48 hours.” It’s the “nerd harder or we fine you” approach to tech regulations.You can’t just write a law that says “take down the bad stuff.” I mean, you can, but it will be a disaster. You have to think about how people might abuse it. The DMCA’s notice-and-takedown system for copyright at least tried to include some safeguards — there’s a counternotice process, there are (theoretical) penalties for false notices. But TAKE IT DOWN? Nothing. Zero. Nada.
We already see thousands of bogus DMCA notices attempting to remove content with no basis in the law, even with those safeguards in place. What do you think will happen with a law that has no safeguards at all? (Spoiler alert: The president just told us exactly what will happen.)
Congress could have fixed those problems [abuse of the law]. But chose not to.
The Take It Down Act is an overbroad, poorly drafted bill that would create a powerful system to pressure removal of internet posts, with essentially no safeguards. While the bill is meant to address a serious problem—the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII)—the notice-and-takedown system it creates is an open invitation for powerful people to pressure websites into removing content they dislike. There are no penalties for applying very broad, or even farcical definitions of what constitutes NCII, and then demanding that it be removed.
Does anyone still reject the idea that djt and MAGA elites are trying to establish a corrupt as hell dictatorship built on bad things like demagoguery, lies, slanders, crackpottery and vicious bigotry? Yes, some still disbelieve? OK, fair enough.
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Gizmodo reports about MAGA's latest attacks on free speech and freedom of holding inconvenient beliefs:
State Department Will Use AI to Search for ‘Pro-Hamas’ Students to Deport
The new move is part of a broader attack by the Trump administration on free speech and free expressionThe U.S. State Department is set to launch a program called “Catch and Revoke” that will use AI systems to scan news reports and the social media accounts of students in America on a visa. The goal is to find people with pro-Palestenian and Hamas sympathies and kick them out of the country.The unspecified AI will crawl through footage and news reports of protests as well as the social media accounts of 100,000 people who are in America’s Student Exchange Visitor System. It’ll start its crawl on October 7, 2023.
The goal is to find out if any of these student protestors or people with alleged Hamas leanings faced what the Trump administration feels is appropriate punishment.
Of course, us citizens are protected, right? We are free to criticize Israel and want the genocide of the Palestinian people to stop. Well, so far we're protected, but there's also this in the article:
Many of Trump’s executive orders and proposed actions on combating domestic terror threats and fighting antisemitism are overbroad. One of his early executive orders said it was the policy of the U.S. government to protect citizens from people who “espouse hateful ideology” without narrowly defining what that ideology is.
Q: Would MAGA say that criticism of Israel and/or any assertion of Palestinian genocide constitutes espousing hateful ideology, e.g., in the form of anti-Semitism?
(Hint: yes, of course!)
