From the very cogent keyboard of one Rigby Maguire, then:

I had to comment on Paul’s post this week, credulously passing along Ann Coulter’s ridiculous assertion that the Gemini AI had defamed her.

First of all, AI is not a research tool. It’s incapable of doing any research or looking up facts. It’s a language predictor, essentially a souped-up version of your chat app’s predictive text function. There’s no liberal conspiracy, and to say an AI is making up “lies” about you is like saying a Ouija board is making up lies (Ed. note: flawless analogy!). It demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what AI is. Or it’s blatant hucksterism.

(In this case, I think “misunderstanding” describes Paul’s post, and “hucksterism” describes Anne’s.)

All of that said, Coulter complains (and Paul repeats) that the AI provided four areas of criticism of Coulter’s writing:

(1) “generalizations and stereotypes,” (2) “inflammatory rhetoric,” (3) “misinformation,” and (4) “normalization of harmful discourse.”

I don’t see how anybody could reasonably argue that this isn’t true, but both Coulter and Paul lament that the AI was unable to come up with a single specific examples of the above criticisms of Coulter’s rhetoric (even though that’s not AI’s purpose or function), and that the examples it did eventually come up with were false — in other words, the AI was functioning exactly as expected. I suspect the AI could come up with made-up quotes from Lincoln, Gandhi, and my imaginary friend, Mr. Sparkles. Coulter knows this. (Admittedly, Paul may not.)

And, of course, it’s laughably easy to come up with actual Coulter quotes that engage in generalizations and stereotypes, inflammatory rhetoric, misinformation, and normalization of harmful discourse.

For example:

When you bring [immigrants] here, you bring those cultures here. That includes honor killings, it includes uncles raping their nieces, it includes dumping litter all over, it includes not paying your taxes, it includes paying bribes to government officials. That isn’t our culture.

and:

But unfortunately for liberals, there is no racism in America. There is more cholera in America than there is racism. But they have to invent it.

and:

I don’t really like to think of [abortion provider George Tiller’s murder] as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester.

and:

No doctors who went to an American medical school will be accepting Obamacare.

And on and on and on. Obviously. [Ed. note — updated here, on 08.22.2024, with the latest excrement, from Ann Coulter’s keyboard, at right. Sheesh. That’s not… AI, either.]

Even if he doesn’t fully understand AI, t’s impossible to believe that Paul doesn’t know this about Coulter. Being willing to carry her rancid water for her makes Paul look like a buffoon.

I usually don’t engage over there, but I actually tried to comment on Paul’s post, but comments are restricted to paid subscribers.

Of course they are.

Anyway, sorry for the long, off-topic comment. I just had to get that off my chest.

Well said, my friend — well said.