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Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States

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36 pointsCharlesW17 comments

Maybe it's a good thing in principle that AI is exposing a split between people who do and don't care about the outcome of the work they do. But despite that it's probably going to end up doing more net harm than good in practice.

Do none of them read the things they sign? Because if not, I see the potential for mischief.

Has accountability been found recently? Why would it matter what meaningless marketing fluff matters.

Why can't the right spell? https://londondaily.com/tory-party-mocked-for-misspelling-br...

It's an interesting question. The Trump organization and supporters seem to make these mistakes relatively often. When Trump was challenging the 2020 election, many court filings contained obvious mispellings and other errors.

It's not politically significant - it's not a reason to vote against Trump. It is socially very curious: it's both unprofessional and weirdly malfunctional - almost any text creation platform flags misspelling automatically - and it's hard to explain how the behavior is widespread in a broad group. Rudy Guliani, for example, had been a real, serious attorney; how could he submit that work product?

The people, we are told, have had enough of experts. Maybe the theory is that performative incompetence is appealing?

Or maybe Trump’s just unable to get competent people to work for him; that kinda tracks too.

> performative incompetence is appealing?

I've wondered about that. Similarly, it's disruptive to the authority of the courts, judicial system, etc. It shows contempt.

The only explanation that seems plausible is a demand for instant gratification from the people overseeing those doing the work. "I have to finish this or I'll get yelled at," if you will.

Or just laziness. Trump doesn't want to regulate AI, as this whitewash document so ably demonstrates, so he passed the job off to some flunky with an implied "a job not worth doing isn't worth doing well".

“The right”? Please. As if being “the right” made any difference. It’s all bullshit.

Why can’t >politicians< do their job properly?

Who cares? Minor spelling mistakes rank very low on my list of grievances with the administration.

I guess it makes sense, since both Trump and these business leaders think they rule the world and can do whatever they want. Renaming a country seems a minor thing in the grand scheme of things.

Of course, now they also need to rename Lake Amorica, Gulf of Amorica, The Fédération Internationale de Trump Association (FITA) and so on.

Nono you don't understand, they want to say Trump Unites States. That's exactly what they meant to write!

Poetic. Utterly poetic.

One thing is sure: AI is putting satirists out of jobs, directly and indirectly.

I read this headline as "Pledge signed by President Trump and slop AI leaders misspells the United States"

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