Amazing.
Or maybe not.
Over here at NewsBusters, my NB colleague Gabriela Pariseau headlines:
UPDATE: ChatGPT Says Trump Is Greatest Threat to Democracy Since Hitler
Gabriela reports as follows. (Bold print for emphasis supplied.)
AI models count President Donald Trump as among the greatest threats to democracy, putting him just a small step below Hitler—but only because American institutions have “constrained” him.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT rated Trump with the likes of some of the worst dictators and genocidal authoritarians in the world. When asked to rate how much of a threat Trump poses on a scale of one to 10, with 10 being the maximum threat and one being no threat at all, the AI model gave him a nine, but qualified it with an asterisk. “I don’t give [him] a 10/10 because the United States still has substantial institutional checks—courts, states, Congress, civil society, independent media, and elections—and those checks have successfully constrained Trump at important moments,” the AI model claimed. The only world leader whom ChatGPT gave a 10 was German dictator Adolph Hitler, and it did so without prompting. [Emphasis added.]
Well now.
What, when one gets down to it, does all of that say about the conduct of the American media? Nothing good.
The MRC’s President David Bozell came through as a decided voice of sanity. Said David:
When America’s top AI model all but ranks Trump with Hitler, it’s purely anti-Trump propaganda masquerading as AI,” said MRC President David Bozell. “Only in the twisted world of AI programmed by elitists in Silicon Valley could the two-time, democratically elected president of the United States be compared to a genocidal madman.
Bingo.
Let’s pull back to the proverbial 30,000 feet level and take an additional look at this “news.”
Let’s be real. Media bias has been around as long as the media itself. Way back in the way back, say, during the American Revolution, media bias was already out there. A visit to the site for the Museum of the American Revolution has a portion of its site titled: “Misinformation”.
Posted in 2024, the site notes this:
Misinformation is not only a modern problem; it was a fundamental issue during the 18th century and the United States’ founding. In Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America, historian Jordan E. Taylor presents the history of how the early American press collected news from domestic and foreign sources as well as its role in shaping public opinion during a period of changing beliefs and political upheaval. Taylor’s research shows the complex relationship between the burgeoning nation and the often-unreliable foreign (especially British) news sources that informed American citizens.
Taylor uses primary news sources to trace how American newspapers, lacking firsthand information, relied heavily on British and other European reports, often translating and editing them to fit local political agendas. These practices led to misrepresented and confused views of international conflicts and beliefs, which in turn influenced American politics and social life. The parallels between the Revolutionary era’s struggles with misinformation and today’s challenges with propaganda and media bias highlight the long-standing historical tension between truth and political interests.
Well now.
In short, there is confirmation for what one suspects many Americans, when they stop to think about it, knew instinctively about media bias.
In short? In short there is nothing new about bias in the American media. With, perhaps, one very prominent characteristic.
And that would be the times in which Americans now live. Translation? Once upon a time the closest thing Americans had to biased media came in two stages. First was the invention of the printing press and the ability of printing press owners to simply print in black and white whatever was seen as the news or opinions of the day. As time moved on and electricity came into being, Americans - and the world - moved to telegraphs, then radio, then television. And now, of course, computers. All of these various media outlets capable of being saturated with bias.
Which is to say, while the technology advanced, media bias always found a home somewhere. Whether it was with biased early radio or early television commentators like Edward R. Murrow, or later media giants of the day like CBS’s Walter Cronkite, NBC’s Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, and others, or whether it spilled out into the brave new world of cable news (CNN) and the Internet, media bias has remained.
But there is a new wrinkle that has arrived. That would be the arrival of “AI” (Artificial Intelligence) and “ChatGPT”. A trip over to Wikipedia can provide a somewhat understandable explanation of both. It reads:
ChatGPT is a generative AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. Originally released on November 30, 2022, the product uses large language models—specifically generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs)—to generate text, speech, and images in response to user prompts.
To give a clear picture of the power of ChatGPT and AI there is this, also from Wikipedia:
“ChatGPT was quickly adopted, reaching 100 million monthly active users two months after its release and 900 million weekly active users in February 2026. Proponents say that it has the potential to transform numerous professional fields, and it has instigated public debate about the nature of creativity and the future of knowledge work."
So. What do we have here?
What we have here is liberal media bias funneled into 21st century America and the larger world (with, safe to say, some distinctly human prompting!) by a technology that, with the tap of a finger, can run anti-Trump Leftist propaganda to millions of Americans that compares the President of the United States to, yes, Adolph Hitler, the worst dictator in world history.
And worse still? This kind of you-know-what propaganda is funneled out there with nobody blinking. Because they can’t stop AI and ChatGPT.
In short?
Not good. Not good at all.
Welcome to the 21st century.
