Conservatives fan flames with new AI chatbot
A conservative company has created a new AI chatbot with a Right-wing bias to counteract programs like ChatGPT, which are openly programmed to promote a globalist agenda.
Virtual World Computing, LLC created the TUSK browser, which bills itself as “The Freedom-First Web Browser and Search Engine developed exclusively for Conservatives.” The browser “is focused on defending and supporting free speech on the Web” and contains a search engine still being developed which allows users to choose whether they want to see search results with a Left-wing, Center, or Right-wing bias.
The company has also recently developed an AI chatbot named GIPPR AI in honor of Republican former President Ronald Reagan, who was nicknamed “The Gipper”.
“TUSK has unveiled its latest innovation, GIPPR AI, a modified AI chatbot technology that promotes conservative values and free-speech and that aligns with patriots and independent thinkers’ point of view,” writes the company on its website.
But TUSK’s attempt to balance out AI bias may only be adding fuel to a larger fire.
Today’s most widely used chatbot is ChatGPT, created by San Francisco-based OpenAI and backed by Microsoft. It is the fastest growing app in history, having snapped up 100 million active users within two months of its launch in November.
ChatGPT has been hailed by the World Economic Forum as “the start of the generative AI boom.” The program has been used to generate everything from best man speeches to complex college papers to stock portfolios which outperform top investment funds.
But the program has been confirmed to strongly promote globalist agendas. It has refused to praise Donald Trump but has written adoring poems about Joe Biden. It waxed lyrical about Antifa but demonized the unvaccinated. It has even generated its own information deepfakes, such as creating a fake study to try to claim there are more than two genders.
The chatbot has drawn heavy criticism for its bias.
"Artificial Intelligence will simply reflect and magnify the mindset and ideology of its creators — and impress those values upon the rest of us," said Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson.
"The [political] left controls AI, and the left is going to do what the left wants to do," Media Research Center and Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider told Fox News.
"They are training the AI to lie," said billionaire Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI. The Tesla CEO told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson last month that AI is created by forces on the Left and is being programmed to indoctrinate.
But Musk, along with other tech titans such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, are also calling for a six-month moratorium in AI development as “a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities.”
“Recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control,” hundreds of tech leaders wrote in the letter.
AI expert Eliezer Yudkowsky, who has spent decades researching artificial intelligence and founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), responded to the letter by urging tech industry captains to “shut it all down” and end AI development indefinitely.
“If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter,” wrote Yudkowsky.
This month, “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton resigned from his position at Google because of the threat AI now poses, adding that a part of him regrets his work in the field.
In a poll from last year of over 700 AI experts, about half say there is at least a 10% chance AI can lead to human extinction.
In another poll of 44 people working in AI safety, respondents warned there is a strong chance (30%+) that the future will be “drastically less” than it could have been as a result of weak AI safety research.
The late scientist Stephen Hawking warned in 2014 that "[t]he development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
Perhaps just as dangerous, however, are calls for government regulation of AI to save humanity, which would place awesome power in the hands of government authorities.
Questions arise, therefore, about the need for GIPPR AI and if Virtual World Computing may be missing the larger picture.
“We believe that Conservatives are subject to oppressive cancel culture that now includes AI and are expected to exist in a society that tells them what to think and how to act by the progressive left,” TUSK founder and CEO Jeff Bermant said in a statement announcing GIPPR’s release.
“It’s time for a TRUTHFUL AI chatbot to take the market by storm and remove the barriers the Radical Left and Big Tech have put in place to allow all Conservatives to enjoy the benefits of AI, without fear of being canceled or shamed for your beliefs,” he added.
