by James P. Pinkerton, Breitbart:
There’s a saying in computers: “Garbage in, garbage out.” If there’s bad input, there’s going to get bad output. The same applies to political ideology and computers; specifically, artificial intelligence (AI): liberalism in, liberalism out.
These thoughts come to mind when the New York Times shares with us that Apple is looking to rev up its AI capacity. The three-trillion-dollar company, which so excels at making hardware, worries that its voice assistant, Siri, is lagging behind other AIs. Notably, behind ChatGPT, controlled by Apple’s arch-rival, Microsoft. ChatGPT’s success has powered the Seattle software giant back into the league-table lead.
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Getting an AI up to speed means inputting more information—and Apple is looking to liberals for the input. The Times explains: “The technology giant has floated multiyear deals worth at least $50 million to license the archives” of news organizations including “Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue and The New Yorker; NBC News; and IAC, which owns People, The Daily Beast and Better Homes and Gardens.”
Revealing choices. According to the AllSides news-ratings portal, The New Yorker falls into its left-most category, as it has long “displayed bias through story choice and slant.” AllSides puts The Daily Beast in the same left category. And as for the fashion magazine Vogue, it slips in plenty of liberal tilt, too. Notably, Melania Trump, as First Lady, was never on its cover, unlike, for instance, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, and Jill Biden. (And as for Teen Vogue, its lefty wokeness is legendary.)
To be sure, not all AI companies have sought to license material; others have simply harvested information wherever they’ve found it. Yet even this harvesting is revealing: On December 27 the New York Times filed suit against OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement. Thus we are reminded: It’s to the left that AI companies are looking.
Indeed, in its January 8 response to the Times, OpenAI cited its “partnerships” with Main Stream Media outlets, including the Associated Press, as well as, a little more strangely, the overtly left-wing New York University. The company added, “We are hopeful for a constructive partnership with The New York Times.” Which raises the question: Are we seeing a new backchannel path for Big Tech to subsidize the MSM? If MSM outlets get big checks from Big Tech, is that protection money of some kind, or a tacit acknowledgment that they’re on the same side?
