Author: Crowhill Report

AI is going to become your gateway to information. AI is controlled by Big Tech. Big Tech is overwhelmingly liberal.

Nobody controls the way content is created right now. People can post anything they want — with certain limited exceptions. If you post something that Big Tech really hates, they’ll shut down your site.

However, tech platforms can control how much visibility certain content gets. They can “demonetize” a content creator on YouTube. (Funny how that starts with “demon.”) They can push content they don’t like lower in search results. They can “shadow ban.”

But that’s child’s play next to what’s coming.

The era of the search engine is on its way out.

Right now, if you want to find something, you go to a search engine, type your query, and get a list of allegedly relevant resources. (Web pages, videos, etc.)

Not very long from now, that will seem primitive. You’ll ask an AI-driven agent your question, and it won’t send you to independent resources, it will simply give you the answer. It might or might not show its sources, or other things to consider.

It will certainly give an answer with an ideological bias. That’s true with ChatGPT right now, and there’s no reason to believe that will change.

Even if people will retain the power to publish their own points of view, the chatbots will control most access to information.

It’s possible that there will be lots of different chatbots that have different filters and biases, so you might be able to select the one you want. But that’s unlikely. A few services — or a few back-end AI routines — will dominate the landscape, and control your access to content. And they will almost certainly have a liberal bias.

It’s probably a good idea.

Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the voting age. Even his staff doesn’t like the idea.

It was bought by Mark Zuckerberg.

In brief, Zuckerberg poured money into election offices in Democrat-leaning areas.

These two private non-profits [funded by Zuckerberg] were responsible for an 85 percent increase in total additional election funding — and that largess was concentrated in a relatively small number of heavily Democratic municipalities.

Bill Maher recently asked Elon Musk about the origin of the “woke mind virus.” I wasn’t impressed with the answers.

It’s fairly obvious to me that woke-ism came from the left, so Bill Maher should be asking himself what it is about modern leftism that planted the seeds for this mind virus.

Possibilities might include …

• An over-emphasis on the individual rights of minority groups.
• The emphasis on identity politics.
• A horror of possibly offending marginalized groups.
• The birth of “equity” out of the “social justice” concept.

But just today I listened to a “First Things” podcast on how same-sex marriage changed America, in which Matthew Schmitz seems to argue that this was the first time media and corporate American was weaponized against dissent.

If you disagreed with same-sex marriage, you were an awful person who should be excluded from polite society, and from making a living.

Looking back, it does seem likely that the same-sex marriage disputes were a tipping point. The left settled into the notion that if you didn’t agree with their policy prescriptions, you were a contagion that needed to be eliminated.

If his goal was to undermine the United States, I don’t know what Joe Biden would have done differently.

He’s weakened and demoralized our military. He’s sold off large portions of our strategic petroleum reserve. He practically invited a Russian incursion into Ukraine, then got us involved in the conflict. He’s intentionally destroying our energy industry. He’s actively trying to destroy what’s left of our culture — in many different ways. He’s done nothing to preserve the dollar’s status as the world reserve currency, which will have a dire economic impact on the country. I think it’s likely that he has accepted bribes against the interests of the United States.

The man is despicable, and I have sometimes said he’s a traitor.

But I think I’m wrong about that.

Webster’s defines treason in a relatively narrow way. It means an attempt to overthrow the government or to kill or injure the sovereign or his family.

The U.S. Constitution defines treason like this: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

By that definition, you might be able to make a case that Biden is a traitor. Allowing our border states to be overrun could (maybe) be considered an act of war, but if it turns out that he has taken bribes from China, that would definitely qualify.

Biden is treacherous. He’s a disaster of a president and will go down in history as the worst ever. But up to this point, I don’t think it’s fair to accuse him of treason.