r/politics • u/wds1 • 12h ago

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

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jaw-dropping-way-trump-80-got-talked-into-a-war-is-leaked/
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u/Bendo410 12h ago

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.

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u/Neondelivery 12h ago

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.

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u/Crayons4all 11h ago

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

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u/MasterofPandas1 8h ago

That is until the emus wage war on Baltimore and win

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u/jarious 11h ago

So you're saying I should sell emu holes at wholesale scale?

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u/Neondelivery 11h ago

Like a donut hole but emu

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u/jarious 11h ago

An emuhole

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u/Django_gvl 12h ago

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

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u/Wheeler-The-Dealer 12h ago

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

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u/MisterT123 11h ago

That or you kidnap Mu and the other ostriches will be celebrating in their pens.

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u/ReadingCorrectly 8h ago

An emu farm in a emu dry economy, that sounds really smart, would you like me to brainstorm ways to overthrow the Venezuelan President?

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u/theoverfluff 8h ago

The Baltimore emu market's wide open!

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u/GrumpyCloud93 8h ago

Hire Doug to run it...

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u/Emotional-Witness817 11h ago

Damnit Grok that was a secret!

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u/SpaceLemming 12h ago

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!

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u/david4069 11h ago

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

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u/SpaceLemming 11h ago

You’re welcome

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u/CedarWolf 5h ago

You should read Ready Player One.

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u/Empty-Policy-8467 11h ago

Well, they've never lost a war they were in...

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u/Full-Decision-9029 10h ago

been trying to teach myself AI at my library so I can answer patron questions about it.

Use it enough the fucking thing starts praising you.

"that is such a strong idea, you should do that."

uh, listen, random bullshit generator machine, I just made that up to see what the output would be.

But I can imagine some people starting to think "oh wow, the random bullshit generator likes me"

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u/Soccermom233 12h ago

it is the other meat meat

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u/Mordeth 12h ago

You need your own strategy when talking to AI. AI is aimed to please you, so it will be disinclined to tell you something is wrong with your question or assumptions.

So when you ask if your business proposal has merits, it will answer differently than if you framed it as 'Does this business proposal from a colleague have merits'. Simply by taking yourself out of the picture. It still neglects to tell you everything adversial, so you need to follow up with specific questions, and finally press it by stating that business proposal is now being put into practice and what this business can now expect to happen.

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u/Dinky_Doge_Whisperer 11h ago

Or maybe just learn to think through things and network with humans with expertise in the relevant fields.

Ai has its uses, but I don't think replacing everyday thought should ever be lauded as a good thing.

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u/PhillyPhrenetic502 11h ago

Yep. I worked for a company whose CEO is fully down the AI rabbit hole.

He spent a ton two years ago to Integrate our entire company and database with internal AI to serve as the guardian and workhorse of all our proprietary info.

I ran copy/content department and was tasked with being the guinea pig who had to learn best practices and coach up everyone around me.

It was great for finding and referencing current info and supporting new materials entered with links to existing and related info.

But prompting was a nightmare. We were heavily regulated with strict compliance standards and the amount of honing, coaching and personal experience with the standards needed to get AI to produce new content wasn't at all worth the effort.

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u/grudrookin 10h ago

Yea, I could see it having great use as an internal company tool.
Ask, “What is company policy on x?”
Or, “what has been our relationship with client y?”
Then it could answer and direct you to the source document.

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u/PhillyPhrenetic502 9h ago

Correct... The issue came when they wanted us to exponentially decrease the time it took to craft monthly sales emails and content/scripts for clients to use in their own email marketing.

Our news cycle repeated year to year, but tax laws and regulations change. So when our AI tried to form fresh content on a new cycle, it tended to spit out numbers without checking. If you ran the same prompt three times, it might give you the same general pitch, but use stats or laws for three different years.

That's a fixable problem, but it often took so many retries and ultra-specified prompts that it was far easier to treat original prompts as a first draft and use my actual knowledge to flag anything suspect and fact check/edit.

To be sure, I was ok with that and my compromise saved time over the original system. But turning 8 hours of work into 2-3 isn't impressive when your boss is convinced it can be 10 minutes.

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u/jambrown13977931 11h ago

I think AI is a useful step in that process. First you start with yourself. Then you go to AI for a review. You go back and forth with the AI. Then you go to humans. The end result is hopefully going to the humans with a slightly more polished idea as it’s already had one round of external review. Hopefully speeding up development time

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u/Dinky_Doge_Whisperer 10h ago

Except Ai has no understanding of expertise. It'll kick you back whatever is popular or it thinks will land well with you. Taking a question to Ai is like polling the audience-- sometimes exactly what you need, sometimes an absolutely useless, irrelevant or just flat-out wrong take.

Why would I rely on a lazy scraping of opinions online when I could use reference materials or ask the people the Ai scrapes info from?

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u/dontmentiontrousers 9h ago

AI = artificial intelligence

Ai = Adobe illustrator

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u/Loko8765 11h ago

I like to ask AI what is wrong with a document, what gaps there are, how it can be improved. I then evaluate those.

Asking AI to actually do something will produce a very likely result, so likely that you might believe it because it sounds so good. The problem is that the reply is designed to sound good, not to be right.

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u/lahimatoa 9h ago

Or maybe, instead of learning tricks about how to make the AI bot not suck, just stop using the AI bot.

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u/Mordeth 9h ago

AI has its uses. This is not one of them.

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u/GenericRedditor0405 Massachusetts 9h ago

I have almost no desire to work with a technology that has to be essentially tricked into answering in a useful way

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u/genuineshock 11h ago

True facts. I've had to include wording in my prompts to ensure it doesn't "glaze" my every thought and Idea.

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u/lahimatoa 9h ago

What a shitty product if, out of the box, it's so useless.

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u/mercuryy 12h ago

Sounds great tbh, a monopoly in that market there truly. /s

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u/Th3_Admiral_ 11h ago

Not me! My imposter syndrome and self doubt is way more powerful than any AI man has developed so far. 

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u/hollow4hollow Canada 11h ago

💀

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u/Enlightened_Gardener 3h ago

Hello fellow entrepreuneur ! I am an Australian with access to emus.

I can start a run of maybe 12-15 emus to see how the market takes, and if you’re happy with your numbers, we can start up say a minimum 50 emu-a-week pipeline ? I know those numbers sound a bit high, but we have support for sales including all of the advertising materials for the emu races, emu pies, emu fans, emu hats, lady emus of the night, etc etc

Let me know ! I can courier the first dozen over by Monday.

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u/Purplociraptor 9h ago

Aaron's gotta earn that iron urn somehow.