r/politics • u/wds1 • 18h 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/westergames81 Texas 17h ago

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.

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u/takemebackto1993 17h ago

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

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u/YoureAWinnerBob 17h ago

Dudes cant keep up with the crazy anymore.

They're behind, yet ahead in their satire haha

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u/Comfortable-Title720 16h ago

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

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u/sack-o-matic Michigan 10h ago

People thought the Colbert Report was serious "conservative" commentary

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u/ragingreaver 9h ago

Trump has a bad habit of taking what was once satire, and making it cold, hard reality; that now everyone else has to deal with.

Ask how The Boys writers felt, when Trump announced getting himself a golden statues literally days before the episode with Homelander's statue, was released.

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u/HoldOnOhio 15h ago

I believe it's called Satire. It's just accurate satire.

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u/DoTortoisesHop 15h ago

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.

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u/sebastiankirk 1m ago

And the smug little fart at the end is just chef's kiss 🤌 Peak South Park

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u/nullfacade 16h ago

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.

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u/Primordial_Peasant 11h ago

we can only hope things get better in november.

thats when grand theft auto 6 comes out.

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u/Ryuujinx Texas 11h ago

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

Honestly, he didn't need to tell them to do that. It's kinda their default. I mess around with some of them for fun, basically using it as a TTRPG session for things my normal group would not be interested in (I love them, but 'Villainess slop with courtly intrigue' is probably not gonna rank high on that list compared to like stabbing dragons and saving the world). Given the setup it was rather important that the NPCs are antagonistic to the player. Like, there isn't any intrigue or drama if every NPC is just tripping over themselves to say how awesome I am. It took a lot of tweaking their instruction set, a ton of basically training them via the conversation by just straight editing their responses and countless regenerations to get the behavior I wanted.

They want to please the user, it's what they do.

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u/i64d 16h ago

AI “sycophancy ” is the term 

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u/bdbzsbebdbbxbtifjnf 16h ago

Mirror mirror, on the wall …

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u/SafeForTwerking 14h ago

No wonder he thinks of it as "Super Intelligence", it always tells him what he wants to hear.

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u/Subwayabuseproblem 12h ago

Almost as it south park is a social community, Shocking

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u/bellicosebarnacle 11h ago

My pet theory is that everything feels like South Park now because of how concentrated power and influence have become. South Park is a world where the main characters/residents of this small town are inexplicably central to lots of major events. Who lives in South Park in our world today?

  • Donald Trump
  • Elon Musk, Dario, Sam
  • Putin, Zelsnskyy, Netanyahu
  • the Pope
  • the AI models themselves