Monday, July 14, 2025

Leftist Propaganda Wants Your Tax Money

Tax-supported radio and tv stations are begging for more subsidies:
The Future of Public Media Is at Risk

The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would eliminate more than $1 billion in previously approved funding for public media. This would cut essential federal support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) — the nonprofit that helps sustain local public radio and television stations across the country, including KAZU. The bill is now in the hands of the Senate, which can vote on it at any time before the deadline of July 18. Public media’s future is at stake — and your voice is more important than ever.

PBS and NPR are left-wing propaganda. They have never employed a Trump supporter, and have never run a story favorable to Trump. They have never even run a story explaining why people voted for Trump, as a Trump supporter might say. They should not get a penny of tax money, and certainly not a billion dollars.

They even complain about other platforms posting alternative views. It reported about an online chatbot:

Indeed, the update did not go unnoticed. By Tuesday, Grok was calling itself "MechaHitler." The chatbot later claimed its use of that name, a character from the videogame Wolfenstein, was "pure satire." ...

Grok's behavior appeared to stem from an update over the weekend that instructed the chatbot to "not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated," among other things. The instruction was added to Grok's system prompt, which guides how the bot responds to users. xAI removed the directive on Tuesday.

Another NPR story:
WARZEL: Well, I think there's a couple of things here. The first is that I think this highlights a real problem with the large language models in general as they get more complex. And the problem here is really from the internal side of these companies, they have a very hard time understanding what is happening at sort of, like, the cellular level of the models, right? They know the weights, they know the balances, they know basically what it was trained off of, and they know what the prompts are given. But they don't know how the model is interpreting these prompts, right?

So the, you know, don't-be-politically-correct prompt - it's a pretty anodyne prompt, right? It's not saying be Hitler, be antisemitic. But the models respond in this really unexpected way. So I think there's this idea of, we've unleashed this technology on people. At the same time, the people who, you know, are in charge of it can't really control what it's doing with any real specificity or know exactly why it's doing what it's doing. I think that that's a big problem.

No, it is not a big problem that an online chatbot is allowed to express politically incorrect opinions.

1 comment:

CFT said...

The big take away of ALL leftist propaganda is that individuals not of the ruling elite need to be told what to think, forcibly if they will not comply to 'talking point du jour'. Covid 19 was the literal death of any left wing pretense to be supporting free speech and thought. Under the cover of an emergency, all the nasty little marxist totalitarian impulses of the left came out to play.

Once I heard several 'experts' on CNN and MSNBC solemnly explain how I should be put into a 're-education camp' unitl I accepted the 'SCIENCE tm' of Mr. Fauci and recanted my heretical misinformed ways, I knew the left was done with liberty.