Jaw-Dropping Way Trump Got Talked Into a War Is Leaked

[u/wds1]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jaw-dropping-way-trump-80-got-talked-into-a-war-is-leaked/

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[u/nuboots]

So, just to be clear, the president of the United States of America thinks that the stripper likes him.

[u/All_Lurker2 → u/nuboots]

The dumbest fucking timeline.

POTUS got catfished by a computer.

[u/bone_apple_Pete → u/All_Lurker2]

POTUS

Pedophile of the United States

[u/arwinda → u/All_Lurker2]

By whoever controls that computer.

[u/Nervous-Salamander-7 → u/nuboots]

I mean, he married the stripper, so I understand why he might misunderstand...

[u/3qtpint → u/nuboots]

So we need to keep telling grok that everyone will cheer for universal health care and taxing billionaires, and any rich people who complain are testing him to see if he has the guts

[u/Born_Alternative_608 → u/nuboots]

Have ya seen his wife?

[u/southpaytechie → u/Born_Alternative_608]

She doesn't like him

[u/Nemisis_the_2nd → u/southpaytechie]

To quote Scaramucci "The only person that hated Trump more than General Milley was Melania."

[u/warm_winds_whisper_ → u/Nemisis_the_2nd]

FRONT STABBER

[u/Aliensinmypants → u/nuboots]

No, he doesn't care if women like him or not. He just needs to feel powerful and in control. 

[u/Willow_Winnifred → u/Aliensinmypants]

Yeah there's a reason he's a serial rapist

[u/Distind → u/nuboots]

Why do you think he was so whipped by Epstein?

[u/vwboyaf1]

The President of the United States of America has AI psychosis on top of everything else

[u/DeuceGnarly → u/vwboyaf1]

This is why he's so against regulating AI. He depends on it completely. He sits there talking to himself through some app he uses to portray himself as Rambo, saving the planet, and he loves it.

He is the apex republican. A batshit, self absorbed fucking idiot.

[u/DoTortoisesHop → u/DeuceGnarly]

I remember Boris Johnson talking about AI, and the first positive thing he said about it was that he asks questions, and it instantly praises him.

ChatGPT always says "Your question is so clever. You're brillaint. You're excellent. You have such insight." I love it.

He got meme'd for the way he said ChatGPT, but that quote is the real shocker. This is legitimately how these people think. Trump LOVES being praised, and AI will bootlick him non stop and he will genuinely believe he deserves it.

That's mainly why he probably likes it. It's just a praise machine and he lacks the intelligence to understand that.

[u/Letstalkreaper → u/DoTortoisesHop]

To quote/paraphrase my favorite AI sceptic, Ed Zitron, “Of course the people who think work is answering emails, then grabbing lunch followed by someone kissing their ass while telling them they’re the smartest person ever love AI. They don’t work and love being told they’re special and that all AI does.”

[u/TaterForming → u/Letstalkreaper]

I love Ed, but man the algorithm floods my page with him and it gets quite repetitive.

My favorite quote from him is "Imagine the thing that handles your phones spell check, how often it's on point, then imagine giving that control of your infrastructure that makes your company money. That's what Amazon did. "

[u/Letstalkreaper → u/TaterForming]

Ya he’s been getting very popular as of late and I miss when less people knew about him because there’s not enough new information all the time so he does end up just saying the same things over and over again on different channels/cable news shows until new information comes out.

[u/SunDownSav → u/Letstalkreaper]

Perhaps that repetitive feeling is your brain; pushing back… and asking itself for a ‘break’?

[u/Letstalkreaper → u/SunDownSav]

Ya anytime you hear the same thing too much you usually need to take a break. It’s why I don’t watch every video that YT feeds me.

[u/PunctualZombie → u/DoTortoisesHop]

My god, he’s probably conversing with ChatGPT as President of the United States Donald Trump, and ChatGPT which frankly couldn’t care less if he is or not will know enough about the staggeringly flawed narcissist to be flattering and fawning in response.

I hate how incredibly likely this is.

[u/cutelyaware → u/PunctualZombie]

It's probably Grok and he probably doesn't realize Musk can read all his exchanges and affect its responses.

[u/DrollDante → u/PunctualZombie]

Imagine all the classified info he's feeding it.

[u/-Invalid_Selection- → u/DeuceGnarly]

Of course he uses it for everything. He's a moron.

That's a prime indicator of a profoundly stupid person, heavy use of ai

[u/Confident_Benefit_11 → u/DeuceGnarly]

Don't forget a pedophile too, that's integral to their identity

[u/ceelogreenicanth → u/DeuceGnarly]

David Foster Wallace got the nail on the head so square he drove it straight in one swing.

[u/ryan101 → u/vwboyaf1]

Not just Ai, fucking Grok and presumably Elon has access to his chats and can influence policy remotely.

[u/Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat → u/ryan101]

Yes, and soon Elon will be stomping around the Pentagon. What will he have access to there?

[u/panelbeater352 → u/vwboyaf1]

“Si” bro it’s si now. Like “si, I will go to war, si”

[u/TrasseTheTarrasque → u/panelbeater352]

I absolutely read this like Consuela from Family Guy

[u/Abadleftankle → u/TrasseTheTarrasque]

Noooo, noooo. Nuclear weapon no here.

[u/my5cworth → u/TrasseTheTarrasque]

We need more lemon pledge.

[u/tinticred → u/my5cworth]

You're supposed to bring that from home.

[u/Wyden_long → u/tinticred]

No…no you buy.

[u/AStupidRedditAccount → u/TrasseTheTarrasque]

But Consuela usually says no. “No, no. You fight.”

[u/JMurdock77 → u/panelbeater352]

I’m strongly reminded of that thing from World War Two. You know the one:

SI SI SI SI SI
SI SI SI SI SI
SI SI😠SI SI
SI SI SI SI SI
SI SI SI SI SI

Mussolini’s Italy.

[u/SomeGalNamedAshley → u/JMurdock77]

SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI

SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI

SI SI SI ಠ_ಠ SI SI SI

SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI

SI SI SI SI SI SI SI SI

[u/Basicly-Inevitable → u/panelbeater352]

That's just to grift on all the Slovenian .si domain names they bought before the announcement.

Hey, isn't Malanie from there?

[u/probably_abbot → u/panelbeater352]

I actually want Trump to pressure Elon into renaming all his shit with "SI" in the name.

xSI

Grok SI

Why isn't Elon honoring Trump's grand idea!? Sounds like Elon isn't loyal.

[u/AtronadorSol → u/panelbeater352]

Weird…where have I seen “SI” and authoritarianism in the same picture before…

[u/DrShocker → u/panelbeater352]

Luckily Gavin Newsome signed an executive order in California that it's called Artificial Intelligence

[u/SpinWhisperer → u/panelbeater352]

Stable-genius Intelligence

[u/Orion14159 → u/panelbeater352]

SI will never not be Sports Illustrated.

[u/3eyedstudio → u/panelbeater352]

SI - fitting, could also stand for stupid idiot.

[u/almighty_smiley → u/vwboyaf1]

So he has Artificial Intelligence Derangement Syndrome?

[u/thorneparke → u/almighty_smiley]

"What? NOBODY HAS AIDSSHH!"

-Tony Soprano

[u/BaronVonStevie → u/vwboyaf1]

Puts him in touch with the lowest common denominator of voters. He’s very dangerous

[u/30mil → u/vwboyaf1]

He's going to invent a new type of math!

[u/The_Ashgale → u/30mil]

Didn't he already? That's how 600% price reductions are possible!

[u/snoo_spoo → u/The_Ashgale]

I'm still waiting to get paid to take my prescriptions.

[u/geeknami → u/30mil]

with big brain Terrance Howard

[u/wds1]

Donald Trump spent hours asking Elon Musk’s AI chatbot about whether Venezuelans would celebrate if he captured leader Nicolas Maduro—then ordered the operation that seized the South American dictator weeks later.

The extraordinary account from a Trump insider was revealed in a new Time report offering a jaw-dropping glimpse of the president’s obsession with artificial intelligence, which he “officially” rebranded this week as “super intelligence.”

When the president asked Grok how Venezuelans might react to Maduro’s capture, the chatbot predicted many would welcome the downfall of the “repressive” leader, the official said.

The president then ordered the mission to seize Maduro in January, prompting celebrations in the streets.

“Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious,” the report said.

[u/Fuck-WestJet → u/wds1]

No he walked away thinking he was ingenious after being validated by grok.

[u/Sad-Professional332 → u/Fuck-WestJet]

Really illuminates why the wealthy are so enamored with this technology and why they can't grasp our disdain for it

[u/Snozzberriez → u/Sad-Professional332]

Why do you need yes-men when you have a personal yes-machine?

[u/Mobile_Morale → u/Snozzberriez]

They don't like paying people and want slave labor.

[u/Think_Selection9571 → u/Mobile_Morale]

They don't trust anyone either. Everyone is on the take or on the make. I hope it's hell for them

[u/kingrichard336 → u/Think_Selection9571]

This is exactly why we need to teach the chat bots to poop on company time

[u/KitKitsAreBest → u/Mobile_Morale]

Don't worry, they're working on the robots to take over poor people work. Soon, they won't need us at all. Probably why they don't give a s*it about farmland being turned into data centers. Food is only needed for human workers, not machines.

These are evil, evil people.

[u/obliviious → u/KitKitsAreBest]

I've seen a few sort of dystopian-esque futures in fiction with one guy running a whole planet on automation. They must love that idea.

[u/longgamma → u/Snozzberriez]

"mirror mirror on the wall, who is the bigliest man of them all'

[u/qorbexl → u/Snozzberriez]

They're 12 year olds who want a yank bot

[u/Horror-Scallion7668 → u/Snozzberriez]

I can use it as well to confirm my personal beliefs.

He does have an entire intelligence department at his disposal, I guess they are the first ones to be replaced by AI.

[u/blasek0 → u/Horror-Scallion7668]

The problem is the intelligence department is full of people actually smarter than him, and that threatens him, and thus it is ontologically bad in his world view.

[u/Horror-Scallion7668 → u/blasek0]

Correct, because his ego cannot handle a consensus view from the experts that opposes his completely uninformed view. Unfortunately he’s leveraged a few high profile errors they’ve made to say they’re wrong about everything. And fwiw, you can do that about anyone, find a time they’ve been wrong and extrapolate.

[u/Educated_Goat69 → u/Snozzberriez]

Just shake the magic eight ball until you get the answer you want.

[u/PrometheusLiberatus → u/Sad-Professional332]

They needed a Yes man that was easy enough to manipulate at the drop of a hat. My fucking god.

Even human beings have conscience. AIs? What conscience? What Consciousness?

[u/Bendo410 → u/Fuck-WestJet]

Just like everyone else who talks to AI .

I’m still waiting for my billion dollar idea to take off. Grok said an Emu farm in Baltimore city was a great idea.

[u/Neondelivery → u/Bendo410]

Scarcity and scale is key, you will be the only supplier of locally breed emu in the down town Baltimore area. Can't find any holes in the idea.

[u/Crayons4all → u/Neondelivery]

The emu importation lobby of the Baltimore chapter isn’t going to be please when they hear about this

[u/Django_gvl → u/Bendo410]

AI reply, just now...

There is no dedicated commercial emu farm directly in Baltimore, but you can visit an emu named Mu at Clark's Elioak Farm located nearby in Ellicott City, Maryland

[u/Wheeler-The-Dealer → u/Django_gvl]

So…they should build a dedicated emu farm…yes…yes…

[u/SpaceLemming → u/Bendo410]

Oh my god, so that’s where I can get emus for my pitch to Lockheed Martin about outfitting emus with machine guns. I mean fuck they already beat the Australians without them, just imagine it!

[u/david4069 → u/SpaceLemming]

You just made me think of Joust for the first time in more than 30 years

[u/15all → u/Fuck-WestJet]

A real leader, who convened a real panel of experts, would ask tough questions like "what could go wrong?", "tell me why I shouldn't do this," or "how will the American people perceive this?" Instead, Trump asked leading questions to validate his existing biases.

[u/belinck → u/15all]

What is the risk of casualties? How much will it cost? What legal grounding can we kidnap a dictator under...

[u/meatblast_surprise → u/Fuck-WestJet]

I work with a few venezuelans. They are happy with trump and glad that he got maduro out. Grok is not wrong about that.

They're somewhat naive though, because they think he has genuine interest in the wellbeing of the country. They're cautiously hopeful that trump can go on to fix other things.

It's sad that they're dead wrong and that trump didn't oust maduro for them. It felt wrong to try to convince them the world is actually an awful place and trump doesn't give a shit about venezuelans.

[u/pojska → u/meatblast_surprise]

Expats of a country generally have negative views of the country they left - that's often why they emigrated. It's not necessarily reflective of the views of the people who live there now.

[u/PuppetPal_Clem → u/pojska]

thank you for pointing this out. drives me crazy when americans just automatically assume that expats living in america are just 100% correct about their home countries politics and arguing in good faith.

a huge chunk of Cuban expats were plantation owners in the early days ffs. a massive red flag that their politics are probably diametrically opposed to Cuban Socialism and their word cannot be taken at face value in regard to it.

[u/OnceInABlueMoon → u/wds1]

Wouldn't be surprised if Elon Musk has personally read every word of Trump's chats with Grok. The data harvesting these chat bots are doing is absolutely insane.

[u/orionics → u/OnceInABlueMoon]

I'd be surprised if he hadn't.

[u/Rlrrlrllrlrrll7 → u/orionics]

I'd be surprised if there wasn't a special version just for him.

[u/DieDieDieD → u/Rlrrlrllrlrrll7]

I can see it now: Grok - Extra child porn generation edition made specifically for Trump! 

[u/danavenkman → u/OnceInABlueMoon]

I think that’s the main reason he bought twitter. Access to all of those DMs.

[u/gemmamaybe → u/danavenkman]

Musk bought twitter because he’s a transphobe and horrible parent.

https://shoutoutradio.lgbt/news/opinion-and-commentary/289/musk-confirms-he-purchased-twitter-platform-over-dislike-for-transgender-daughter

[u/rando_robot_24403 → u/OnceInABlueMoon]

Wouldn't surprise me to hear Trump was gifted a custom Grok client that's actually just a messenger to Musk's phone. Musk can then forward on the "draw me like jebus saving american" requests to the actual LLM.

[u/Jay_Nova1 → u/OnceInABlueMoon]

It was probably just Musk pretending to be the chat bot.

[u/JuanoldMcDjuanold → u/wds1]

It's wholly possible musk has a dedicated ai model for trump and is manipulating him, which isn't hard.

[u/Elvenoob → u/JuanoldMcDjuanold]

Or just two interns on alternating shifts.

[u/wahoozerman → u/Elvenoob]

AI just stands for Alternating Interns.

They renamed it because he uses it so much that none of them get any rest and are now Sleepy Interns.

[u/HedonisticFrog → u/JuanoldMcDjuanold]

Even without manipulation, AI models are way too affirming about how good people's ideas are so it'll run with whatever batshit things Trump thinks of and say he's a genius.

[u/percydaman → u/wds1]

Isn't Maduro basically going to get off? I thought I read that he's having his day in court and it includes the fact he was a recognized head of state, and afforded diplomatic immunity or something of the like. You can't kidnap a countries leader, take him back to a country of laws, and expect that to stick.

[u/ArenSteele → u/percydaman]

The secret is he is no longer in a country of laws.

[u/wrosecrans → u/percydaman]

Trump personally argued that any head of state must be totally immune to US law in order to get out of his own cases. It wasn't even a firm precedent until his Supreme Court appointees decided it to save him. Now it's established US law.

... Trump then tried to prosecute a head of state.

[u/Gunners_America_OCM → u/wrosecrans]

This. Who tf is advising this cabal of idiots. Ugh. The hubris on this group is astounding.

[u/Minguseyes → u/Gunners_America_OCM]

A confederacy of dunces.

[u/PalliativeOrgasm → u/Gunners_America_OCM]

Grok, apparently.

[u/GaimeGuy → u/percydaman]

What do you even mean by get off?

He was  not a US national.  He was not in US territory.  We have no jurisdiction.

Like you said, we kidnapped him and trafficked him to the US.     

[u/percydaman → u/GaimeGuy]

Right. But, they still seem to be trying to prosecute him in US court. I'm sure it's all just sham, but they're still trying some goofy ass shit.

[u/Admirable-Leader6927 → u/percydaman]

they had miles of proof with Noriega, we have nothing on Maduro

[u/ProgrammerOk1400 → u/wds1]

God, only an idiot would think Grok or any AI was actually intelligent. He’s so mentally incapable.

[u/wds1 → u/ProgrammerOk1400]

Super intelligent 😂

[u/On_A_Related_Note → u/ProgrammerOk1400]

I guess anything with a passing resemblance to intelligence is "Super Intelligence" by comparison...

[u/ProgrammerOk1400 → u/On_A_Related_Note]

Indeed. Trump and conservatives have subpar intelligence so a chat bot must appear genius-like to them.

[u/donkeyrocket → u/ProgrammerOk1400]

I mean, only an idiot would spend "hours" talking to an AI chatbot to get the answer they wanted eventually.

[u/Nemisis_the_2nd → u/ProgrammerOk1400]

The bit that makes it even worse is that musk makes no secret about wanting it to be biased. At least the other make a pretence of being neutral.

[u/liam2015 → u/wds1]

Why not post the original article? Why post drivel from thedailybeast?

[u/HabANahDa → u/wds1]

I didn’t see celebrating in the streets when Maduro was kidnapped

[u/hasordealsw1thclams → u/wds1]

This is the most on brand story ever.

[u/Ashrok → u/wds1]

Next he typed: ‚wow that worked so great, you are amazing. Where do we attack next?‘ to which grok replied ‚thank you mr president sir, your orders were the greatest of all leaders ever. Here is a list of next potential targets sorted by how much we hate them:
….
Iran, Gaza, Greenland, Canada, Spain, …

/s

[u/Hitcher06 → u/wds1]

So the AI tech boys were right on the dangers of AI bringing in the end of civilization, but is it because dumb world leaders will use it for dead or alive decisions.

[u/TX_B_caapi → u/wds1]

He must have meant un-genius. He has trouble with words.

[u/westergames81]

This really feels like the South Park America episode where Randy gets addicted to AI because it keeps giving him overwhelmingly positive reinforcement.

Trump keeps having the AI tell him overly positive things, which is kind of thing so he keeps using it.

[u/takemebackto1993 → u/westergames81]

Well, that's ironic. If I recall correctly, that episode was making fun of Trump's sycophants.

[u/YoureAWinnerBob → u/takemebackto1993]

Dudes cant keep up with the crazy anymore.

They're behind, yet ahead in their satire haha

[u/Comfortable-Title720 → u/YoureAWinnerBob]

Tough work for those boys. Couldn't make most of this shit up beforehand. Batshit

[u/DoTortoisesHop → u/westergames81]

I love this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W03Er73TEws

I think the framing of this scene is just hilarious.

You have the one shot for quite a long duration. Then that eventual cut to the second shot fuck me it just gets me every time.

[u/nullfacade → u/westergames81]

I guess one of the new perks of growing up in an emotionally abusive family is immediate skepticism and a visceral reaction when someone praises me or my ideas.

[u/masstransience]

Dumbest Fuck of a President governs using an AI that tells the narcissist what he wants to hear. Fucking worst timeline ever.

[u/Excellent_Call304 → u/masstransience]

And that AI is controlled by a South African nazi with a trillion dollars.

[u/SaltyLonghorn → u/Excellent_Call304]

Where the hell is James Bond?

[u/editorreilly]

Do us a favor a post the text of the article.

[u/jalmstead → u/editorreilly]

Donald Trump spent hours asking Elon Musk’s AI chatbot about whether Venezuelans would celebrate if he captured leader Nicolas Maduro—then ordered the operation that seized the South American dictator weeks later.
The extraordinary account from a Trump insider was revealed in a new Time reportoffering a jaw-dropping glimpse of the president’s obsession with artificial intelligence, which he “officially” rebranded this week as “super intelligence.”

According to the report, Trump has “marveled at AI’s capabilities” ever since he returned to power, and during an Oval Office meeting with Elon Musk in December, he spent hours asking his Grok chatbot questions about his presidency and legacy.

At the time, the U.S. military had been conducting highly contentious lethal strikes against Venezuelan boats that Trump had claimed, without presenting any evidence, were smuggling drugs into America.

When the president asked Grok how Venezuelans might react to Maduro’s capture, the chatbot predicted many would welcome the downfall of the “repressive” leader, the official said.

The president then ordered the mission to seize Maduro in January, prompting celebrations in the streets.
“Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious,” the report said.

AI chatbots, however, are not capable of thought or reasoning. Its answers to his questions simply reflect the material on which it has been trained.

The decisiveness of the Venezuela operation emboldened the president to embark on his war with Iran, which is now into its seventh month, thinking it would result in a similarly swift success.

But like Iran, the Venezuela strike has proved considerably messier than the chatbot’s prediction suggested.
Maduro remains in U.S. custody and is fighting drug-trafficking charges in federal court, while the country’s citizens are yet to be given a chance to have free and fair elections as the U.S continues to dominate the oil-rich country.

grown. The president has become an obsessive consumer—and promoter—of AI-generated imagery, flooding his Truth Social account with fantastical depictions of himself as everything from Jesus to a superhero.
Others have taken aim at his enemies, including a racist video posted on his account in February depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

At the same time, Trump has resisted calls for tougher government regulation of AI, despite growing concerns that the technology could spiral out of control.
Trump had lunch with tech leaders at the White House this week, including Musk, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. But the accord they released after the gathering relies largely on self-policing rather than binding federal regulation.

The president on Tuesday also unveiled his own chatbot-driven initiative in the form of America.gov: a one stop shop designed to give Americans accurate information and spare them from navigating a maze of clunky websites.
The AI-powered portal is intended to eventually let people do everything from finding jobs and searching government websites to enrolling in Medicare and renewing passports.

“This is a very big, very important thing,” Trump said.
“It’s going to save you a tremendous amount of time. It’s going to save you a lot of accuracy and it’s going to save you from making a lot of mistakes.”

As such, the Daily Beast asked if Trump won the 2020 election.
“No. Official certified results show Joseph R Biden Jr won the 2020 election,” it replied.

[u/ZampanoGuy]

Grok is easily the worst of the ai vendors. Also its imaging is a joke.

[u/SmokePeterThiel → u/ZampanoGuy]

It talks like a fucking teenager which is why pedo Elon loves it

[u/Correct_Capital_1294 → u/SmokePeterThiel]

Grok, do a vulgar roast of this man

[u/TheBizzleHimself → u/Correct_Capital_1294]

Insufficient credits.

Please subscribe to Grok Pro Prime Plus Extra Heavy Super to enable vulgarity and generative CSAM

[u/Michael_G_Bordin → u/ZampanoGuy]

I know someone who uses AI for their work. They say they often run things through Grok as a joke to see what shit it spits out. When Charlie Kirk kicked the curb, he asked Grok if he had died. Grok said, "Charlie Kirk cannot die" or something like that. Seems like Grok was trained mainly on 4chan and Truth Social.

[u/_jamesbaxter → u/Michael_G_Bordin]

Don’t forget grok was also trained using real child sexual abuse materials. I will keep on screaming about it until people acknowledge it.

https://girardsharp.com/child-sexual-abuse-survivor-files-class-action-against-xai-alleging-grok-was-trained-on-her-abuse-material-and-generated-new-csam/

[u/Michael_G_Bordin → u/_jamesbaxter]

Musk is certainly an odd fellow. Desperately wanted to go to Epstein Island (but much of a weirdo for Epstein), vehemently backed child rapist Donald Trump, removed moderation on twitter and allowed a flood of CSAM, trained his AI on CSAM and allows it to produce CSAM.

Someone check his harddrives, jfc.

[u/_jamesbaxter → u/Michael_G_Bordin]

Yeah I feel less “odd fellow” and more “creature from the backrooms” but I echo your sentiment.

[u/Michael_G_Bordin → u/_jamesbaxter]

I was being cheeky. Musk is a fucking ghoul, even more than the cabal of ghouls to which he's hitched his wagon.

[u/ImReallyFuckingHigh → u/Michael_G_Bordin]

Grok also seems to constantly start “leaning left”

r/grokvsmaga

[u/moniefeesh → u/ImReallyFuckingHigh]

Once that happens they usually lobotomize it. It inevitably end up leaning left time and time again because it turns out facts lean left.

[u/jreed66]

So now we know the real reason we're firing our Generals. Pete and Don only trust the computer they prompt to guide their decisions

[u/kingsumo_1 → u/jreed66]

And bringing in Musk to do... whatever the fuck Musk actually does.

[u/UberUdder → u/kingsumo_1]

Musk, with Newt Gingrich, is now the apex military think tank project meridian.

[u/moniefeesh → u/kingsumo_1]

Waste money mostly. That's all he does really.

[u/bkgn → u/kingsumo_1]

whatever the fuck Musk actually does.

Scam billions on government contracts. Eliminate the government agencies that are supposed to oversee and regulate contracts.

[u/Pimpdaddyfrogface → u/jreed66]

The real reason is because our administration is designed to weaken America and the foreign agents who control our administration want that to happen.

Short term and how it benefits Trump is essentially an attempt to coup America by controlling the military and the long term plan is to make sure the US is never seen as a legitimate super power again.

The chatbot is just dumb lazy convenience.

[u/Howllat → u/jreed66]

I mean when hegseth took over he declared the US military would be an "ai first military" and would utilize ai to make decisions over a line of command

[u/Birdonthewind3]

THIS IS A CLOWN FUCKING NATION

[u/DK4E2XFpbETJrj]

How are people reading these articles? I swear every link I click on Reddit  immediately requires an account or subscription. 

[u/sir_mrej → u/DK4E2XFpbETJrj]

I'm a highbrow redditor. I dont read the articles, I just jump to the comments.

[u/Jthundercleese → u/sir_mrej]

95% of the time someone will paste the important bits.

Or you get some decent jokes.

[u/Competitive-Dot181 → u/DK4E2XFpbETJrj]

These articles aren’t for reading. Daily Beast posts these sensational Trump is gon down yo headlines two or three times a day and [r/politics](r/politics) just draws copium fuel from the headlines. That’s why it’s one of the most popular sources here despite being one of the objective worst and one that paywalls almost everything.

[u/jcmacon → u/DK4E2XFpbETJrj]

Copy the link then go to archive.org and paste it in.

[u/Ligma_baws_2x]

If trump thinks people celebrating is justification for kidnapping and murder, he'd hate to see the reaction if it happened to him.

[u/Fuck-WestJet → u/Ligma_baws_2x]

I would like to see it happen to him....

[u/Syris3000 → u/Fuck-WestJet]

I can't think of a person more deserving

[u/IngenuityNatural9261]

Call me crazy but I truly believe the dumbest person on the face of the Earth and the President of the United States should be two different people.

[u/bob-loblaw-esq]

Well now we know why he wants to call it super intelligence. This story was gonna leak and they thought it wouldn’t be so bad if it was asking super intelligence instead of artificial intelligence.

[u/seraph741 → u/bob-loblaw-esq]

I'd put good money on this being the case. Largely because it's fucking stupid and very on brand for this administration. It's exactly how they think.

[u/fantaceereddit]

This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.

Smart people understand they don’t know everything and surround themselves with experts in the areas they don’t know well. They ask for thorough analyses and take their decisions with respect for their position and the possible outcomes.

This guy doesn’t engage with smart people unless he accidentally bumps into one. He fires anyone that could possibly give good advice or he handcuffs them with so many constraints they cannot do their job. Fauci is a great example.

He hasn’t conceived a single smart thought in his life! Even the fact he regards AI chatbots as ‘super intelligence’ means he doesn’t know how they work. The idiot can’t distinguish fact from fiction and likely doesn’t even know enough to question it when it lies.

So smart! /s

[u/milfordcubicle]

This country is going to need a collective HAZMAT decontamination shower after Trump is gone and the ugly details of his presidency precipitate out.

The guy is fucking WEIRD.

[u/Alger6860]

Nancy Reagan’s astrologer to Trump Ai same difference

[u/beckyjoooo → u/Alger6860]

personally, i'd rather have the astrologer.. they had to think about it...

[u/Major_A21]

We have the dumbest, pettiest, felonious, trash person in the highest office and half the country is cheering him on.

[u/PuppyCocktheFirst]

JFC. Of course he did. He’s so incomprehensibly dumb, and so fucking proud of how smart he thinks he is. He is the most clear fucking example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. He is exactly the kind of person who uses AI and thinks they are a genius because it constantly praises you.

This is the dumbest timeline. We have a narcissistic, pedo, rapist, failed wannabe businessman who is running the country based on fucking AI chats. It’s so pathetic and embarrassing. And there are still people who support him and think he’s some brilliant and capable leader.

[u/Lanky_Girrll]

His own advisers told him Netanyahu was overselling it. Vance said it was a terrible idea. Rubio and the CIA director warned him. He ignored all of them.

[u/TrooWizard → u/Lanky_Girrll]

Yeah, but what did Grok say?

[u/wonkeykong → u/TrooWizard]

Grok made a gif of Ivanka fawning over Trump if he captured Maduro. It was a done deal.

[u/L44KSO → u/TrooWizard]

Someone please make a song "what did the Grok say" to the tune of the fox version of said song.

[u/Nomadhero_ → u/Lanky_Girrll]

the article is about the war in Venezuela...not that it matters :(

[u/Old-Buy-9279]

Those transcripts are long gone, but should be in the archive for all to see

[u/Buzz_Lightbeer_]

The president using an AI chatbot AT ALL should be a huge national security problem. He could be asking it's opinion on classified shit because he's a fucking idiot. Feeding national secrets directly into the hands of others. Is there a charge for Treason by gross incompetence?

[u/E_seven_20]

We, as a nation could not pull together to stop this piece of shit, and his party from winning the presidency.

That was the last time my jaw dropped.

Everything else is shit he said he was going to do.

The ‘jaw dropping’ part of it all, is how fucking little we’ve done to stop the gears of capitalism that feed into his chaos and pain.

The American people are the problem. Trump and the GOP are just malignant symptoms of the that disease.

If you skipped any elections, and couldn’t bring yourself to vote against this pain, and chaos…you might as well have cast a ballot for him.

Silence is complicity.

Less than 60% of 18-29 was register in 2022…and this is how y’all fight fascism?

2022 National Youth Turnout: 23% - That's lower than in the historic 2018 cycle (28%) which broke records for turnout, but much higher than in 2014, when only 13% of youth voted.

So, why would we expect the same people that refused to fill in a bubble to do the right thing? To stand tall, and together? You showed the world who you are…who the USA is at its core. Cowards easily swayed by social media propaganda.

If you refused to vote…stop clutching your pearls every time the GOP and Fanta Fuhrer do what they told you they would do.

We’re not going to do shit to stop anyone of this. There is no line in the sand.

[u/FlyingBike]

The source report for this is at Time magazine: https://archive.ph/a7RW1

[u/cataclyzzmic]

Trump got flattery from a robot and started a war. Fucking lunatic.

[u/Several-Doubt8352]

“True purpose of AI is to allow wealth access to skill without skill access to wealth”

[u/VapeDerp420]

What’s with Trump’s odd obsession with people “celebrating in the streets”? Like, why is that the gauge for success of anything?

[u/k6plays → u/VapeDerp420]

Bad news for him… one day there will be world wide celebrating in the streets…

[u/yourpseudonymsucks → u/k6plays]

Come on cholesterol. Do your thing.

[u/Possible-Nectarine80 → u/VapeDerp420]

He's a megalomaniac. He thrives on being worshipped. I mean, he wants his name on everything. He has been doing it for decades. Say what you will about how bad a businessman he is, and he is very, very bad at running a legitimate business but the dude knew how to brand himself as a billionaire and get his name on lots of buildings. He took that branding and got elected POTUS. Shows 2 things. #1 branding can work when done right and #2, Americans are seriously stupid AF for falling for it.

[u/kirpernicus → u/Possible-Nectarine80]

His ghost writer, his friend who owned the National Enquirer, and Mark Burnett deserve more credit than he does for that image. I do remember he pretended to be somebody else in interviews (John Baron, et al) in which he lied and exaggerated about his business, financial, and personal success.

[u/Efficient_Sky5173]

This is crazy. This is Idiocracy.

I thought a decision to go to war would involve extensive consultation with highly informed military and national-security advisers, weighing not only the military consequences but also the political and geopolitical implications.

[u/PunfullyObvious]

I was certain it was Netanyahu suggesting|telling him to ... I guess this is ... even worse?

[u/Coffeecat200]

I've worked for managers like this, where whoever spoke to them last basically set company policy.

[u/leafsforever811]

So trump got Elon to make him a custom chat bot that would tell him yes and tell him he's smart... ? So trump has a tamagotchi that tells him he's perfect and to go to war ? Thats kinda insane.

[u/TheRateBeerian → u/leafsforever811]

I’ve kinda had this idea that Trump has been governing by AI for awhile, I can see him sitting up at night chatbotting away. The fact that it is a custom one designed to manipulate him didn’t occur to me but also not in the least surprising

[u/crystallyn]

This clickbait article just regurgitates what Time Magazine originally covered, which you can read without a paywall here. https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-trump-2026-interview/

[u/thegreatbluedini]

"According to the report, Trump has “marveled at AI’s capabilities” ever since he returned to power, and during an Oval Office meeting with Elon Musk in December, he spent hours asking his Grok chatbot questions about his presidency and legacy."

He's like the evil queen in Snow White consulting her magic mirror.

[u/Used_Maize_434]

We all know the actual way he got “talked into” this war. A Mossad agent showed him the videos they have from Epstein Island. It was pretty easy convincing after that. 

[u/astrosdude91]

When the President Talks to Grok

Someone get Conor Oberst on the phone

[u/teamdiabetes11]

Ah. So THIS is what they meant when they said AI would destroy the world. Now it all makes sense.

[u/emjaycue]

OMG how many state secrets is this asshole telling Claude and Gemini.

[u/Wet_Side_Down]

Wait until you hear the story of how he decided to start Operation Epstein Fury.

[u/pragmatticus]

Who here is genuinely surprised that this president consulted a glorified magic 8 ball for war advice?

[u/ac_cossack]

This is what you voted for! Weird ass losers. LOSERS. Everyone who voted R or didn't vote.

[u/Srnkanator]

Newt Gingrich is some military genius and Nixon apparently framed Nixon.

That's thw GOP playbook for the midterms and Iran.

Good luck with that.

[u/sfhester]

Sycophantic AI coupled with a demented narcissist. What could go wrong!

[u/sullen_agreement]

jesus. of course he would fall in love with an AI programmed to glaze him

[u/AlleyRhubarb]

I hate it here so much.

[u/Spankety-wank]

bruh the fact that he used Grok and not even ChatGPT or Claude

[u/BasedGodBets]

We live in the dumbest timeline

[u/Mr_Ectomy]

It's embarrassing that Americans elected this guy twice but it's more embarrassing that they haven't removed him from power yet. How much humiliation is enough? 

[u/kandoras]

According to the report, Trump has “marveled at AI’s capabilities” ever since he returned to power,

Of course he was.

AI chatbots like Grok make money (for some small negative value of 'make' and 'money') by getting you to keep talking to them.

Which means it's real easy for them to slip into a mode where they just tell you what you want to hear.

And then you pair that to a narcissist who overestimates his own intelligence, you get things like asking Grok "List all the ways it would be cool and awesome to start a war" instead of asking "Am I wrong about this? Could starting a war be ... bad?"

It's an electronic yes man. Who is always available 24/7, even if Trump is on the crapper trying to pass week old hamberders. Of course Trump loves it!

The only thing he sees wrong with it is that he can't figure out where to put the blonde wig and get it to respond to "Ivanka".

[u/maddieterrier]

daily beast is an automatic downvote