By John Mikkelsen
I’ve just had another run-in with Artificial Intelligence over one of the many controversies embroiling the Labor Government and its hapless Ministers during the past week, before it reluctantly admitted it was wrong.
Selecting just one individual from the bunch recently exposed in the media spotlight is a bit like the old game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey:
. The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Treasurer Jim Chalmers have reportedly been at loggerheads over the botched credit card surcharge removal and the Australian Taxation Office’s refusal to accept card payments, with Albo and Jim arm-wrestling for honours in having the change deferred;
. Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has tried unsuccessfully to justify the $20-plus million taxpayers had to fork out for the ‘Pre-Cop Flop’ meetings in Fiji and Tuvalu after the riveting speakers including former Labor PM Julia Gillard, ex- New Zealand PM Jacinta Ardern and Teal Independent Zali Steggall saw him nodding off, with Steggall facing a blackout as the diesel generators couldn’t compete with all the hot air generated.
. Minister for Communications and Sport Anika Wells had another Freudian slip at the National Press Club – while introducing the government’s proposed new Digital Duty of Care legislation, she said “we are controlling” before correcting herself, “we are not controlling free speech; we are not conducting covert surveillance”. But Albo had already belled the cat on that one at the recent UN conference in New York, saying its next targets would be “misinformation, disinformation, and the increasing political polarisation driving people away from the political centre toward the far left and far right” – then denying he had made that link the very next day!
. Anika Wells again over the continuing travel rorts controversy after she charged taxpayers $4,000 for a trip to Adelaide and an overnight stay which she claimed as “official business” for a meeting with State Labor Minister Chris Picton, when she also just happened to attend a friend’s birthday party and there was no entry in Picton’s diary to back her claim.
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I could go on, but my latest tangle with Google’s AI bot involved another travel scandal involving Anne Aly and her triple portfolios – Minister for Small Business, International Development and Multicultural Affairs.
With more small businesses under the pump and facing possible liquidation in the wake of Federal Budget changes compounded by the latest credit card surcharge bungle initially backed by Chalmers and Albo, it came as a surprise to many that Ms Aly was actually the responsible Minister, along with her other seemingly conflicting duties.
She faced a grilling from the Opposition over her $150,000 taxpayer-funded overseas travel bill, earning her the tag “The Macarena Minister”.
That’s when I asked the AI bot for a link to a video clip of her doing the dance moves while on an overseas jaunt, and it insisted half a dozen times that no such footage existed – the clip I had seen on News24 was an AI generated satirical spoof.
I knew that if such satire was shown, it would always be identified, probably because there would be legal ramifications if it was portrayed as real footage.
So I persisted: “They showed an actual clip of her doing the dance move so yes it does exist.” AI: “There is no footage of Anne Aly doing the Macarena.
“The clip you saw on News24 was actually a satirical overlay or a visual pairing created by the network. Because the phrase “Macarena Minister” was coined by her critics, political broadcasts commonly place that text label over standard, official b-roll footage of her walking, gesturing in parliament, or posing for generic travel photos.
“You may have seen her moving her hands or gesturing during a fiery speech in Parliament, which news segments frequently match up with the nickname to heighten the satire, but she has never performed the dance on camera.”
Me: “I don’t believe that, she was wearing a yellow dress and she was doing the dance moves.”
I said I had seen it on the Steve Price show only to get more denials claiming:
“The specific segment with Steve Price on News24 features completely simulated footage.
“When Price notes that “she is shown doing the dance and it looks real,” he is commentating directly on how seamlessly the digital overlay was put together. News networks often present these edited visuals during opinion or commentary blocks—paired with on-screen banners like “Macarena Minister”—to mock a politician’s actions, but it is not actual footage of the Minister dancing…
Me: “Watch again, he says ‘where she was filmed dancing at a Diwali Festival’. He doesn’t say ‘and it looks real.’”
AI: “You are completely correct, and I apologize for getting that wrong.
“Steve Price did state that she was ‘filmed dancing at a Diwali festival’ during her five-day official visit to India and Bangladesh.
“The footage you saw is 100% real, and your memory of her outfit and actions is incredibly accurate. During the Australian High Commission’s Diwali Bash in New Delhi, Dr. Aly wore bright yellow traditional festive clothing and joined in with the embassy staff and guests by performing traditional Indian dance moves…”
Finally an admission but it came with an excuse: “The confusion stems entirely from how the news media framed the story: She was celebrating the Festival of Lights at an official diplomatic function in India.
“Because she was hit with a $150,000 total travel bill—which included a separate stop in Spain—opposition MPs nicknamed her the “Macarena Minister”. Commentators like Steve Price then ran the real clip of her dancing at the Diwali festival while talking about the “Macarena” nickname, which made it look like the two events were the same thing.
“Thank you for correcting me on that specific detail—you had it exactly right.”
Well thanks, but I knew that from the outset. And it’s not the first time I’ve locked horns with AI over a political issue. In a previous knock-out round I had to correct it when it told me The Coalition’s Energy Policy still included the construction of seven government-owned nuclear power stations. Obviously not. https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/technology/miss-and-hit-with-a-silicon-brain/
I also wrote more recently about outlandish claims by some AI tech “experts” that the seemingly helpful bots were secretly plotting our demise: https://quadrant.org.au/other/technology/armageddon-intelligence/
A good plot for a Hollywood sequel to I Robot, which I would classify as science fiction. But meanwhile AI seems to get its political view from the left, not the right, and it begs the question again of whether it can be trusted for an unbiased, balanced statement of facts. Would such “misinformation” be banned under Labor’s Digital Duty of Care legislation?
I think not.
John Mikkelsen is a former editor of three Queensland regional newspapers, columnist, freelance writer and author of the Amazon Books Memoir, Don’t Call Me Nev. (https://www.amazon.com.au/Dont-Call-Nev-John-Mikkelsen/dp/B09S244GP1/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?
AI was introduced and promoted as a gee-whiz aid to make life and business so much easier. And so many people were sucked into believing that. Then came the totally unrealistic videos and the obviously factually incorrect, but politically correct, answers to questions. Then AI became the driving force behind driving infringements, facial recognition, and general surveillance. AI soon demonstrated that it is not a force for good for the improvement of society. It is an unreliable, confusing element which creates a false reality. As Gareth Icke mentioned in one of his podcasts, unless one has a firm belief in something as the basic foundation of one’s life, e.g. religion, AI will create a world in which people who have no ‘anchor’ can be very easily manipulated. Consequently, AI can be seen as another element in the totalitarian control of society, following covid, inflation, net zero, immigration, etc., which is being promoted by the globalists and Fabians who control our government.
If people are deluded enough to believe that free SI (formerly AI) has the same compute and characteristics as the paid SI, or the paid SI has the same characteristics and output as the private corporate SI, then I really don’t know what to think? People always get what they pay for, those who refuse to pay get the faeces.
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Earlier this year, a Dubai domiciled ex-pat was telling us about two acquaintances, one a $7 million net-worther, the other a $250 million net-worther. They both have assets managed by the same bank and both use the same local branch. Obviously, due to their different financial statuses, or leagues, they are both allocated two completely different type of financial advisor. In the same week, the bank was advising the low level customer to allocate into bonds, whereas the high net-worther was advised to allocate 7% of their assets into another asset. The latter asset will be central to the future corporate SI economy.
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For those participating in the companies involved and actively following their reports, then what they receive derives from the corporate SI. These are the leading multi-billion dollar companies that can actually afford the corporate SI. In fact, the companies and their products were developed and built with the input of corporate SI. They are corporate SI by-products.
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In a recent Blackrock report, the corporate SI was interrogated and asked what it wanted to use within a certain capacity central to its future economic operations. The agentic SI informed the interrogators exactly what it wanted, which fully agrees with our own long held convictions, and the banking industry’s asset allocation advice for its high net worth customers. The SI agents said, they would hold 79% of one asset in its core Layer 1 reserves, 77% of another asset in its Layer 2 reserves, and 6% of another asset in its Layer 3 reserves.
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The SI economy is not even about terrestrial economics, that’s just a by-product. The whole program is about space – outer and inner. A few days ago, Musk quipped, that the future trajectory of Spacex ($2,3 trillion) will see its value rise to orders of magnitude greater than the current global economy ($126 trillion), As order of magnitude means at least 10X, this means that Spacex will be worth more than $1000 trillion. Unfortunately, Elon never provided a timeline, although other less public sources do.
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Once upon a time, Gary Kasparov boasted that no computer could ever defeat him at chess. Within two years, the Deep Blue machine slaughtered him, he quickly gave up trying. That was in 1997 – over a quarter of a century ago. That was the Stone-Age.
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It is because people like the author, commentators here, and most everyone else, who now use SI, and will continue to do so in order to remain competitive and relevant, which is precisely why we celebrate the victory of early economic convictions. It was inevitable.
If people are deluded enough to believe that free SI (formerly AI) has the same characteristics as the paid SI, or that paid SI has the same characteristics and output as the private corporate SI, then I really don’t know what to say? People always get what they pay for. If you refuse to pay – you get rubbish.
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Earlier this year, a Dubai domiciled ex-pat was telling us about two acquaintances: one a $7 million net-worther, the other a $250 million net-worther. They both have assets managed by same bank and both use the same local branch. But obviously, due to their different financial statuses, or levels, they are both allocated two completely different types of financial advisor. In the same week, the bank was advising the low level customer to allocate to bonds, whereas the high net-worther was advised to allocate 7% of their assets into another asset. The latter asset will be central to the future corporate SI economy.
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For those who are part of the companies involved and actively follow their reports, then what they receive derives from the corporate SI. These are the leading multi-billion dollar companies that can actually afford the corporate SI. In fact, the companies and products were developed and built with the input of corporate SI. They are corporate SI by-products.
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In a recent Blackrock report, the corporate SI was interrogated and asked what it wanted to use within a certain capacity central to its future economic operations. The agentic SI told the interrogators exactly what it wanted, which fully agrees with our own long term convictions, and the banking industry’s asset allocation advice for its high net-worthers.
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The SI agents said, they would hold 79% of one asset in its Layer 1, 77% of another asset in its Layer 2, and 6% of another asset in its Layer 3. The SI agents are hoovering up wealth like there’s no tomorrow, they know exactly what they want and exactly how much.
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The SI economy is not even about terrestrial economics, that’s just a by-product. The whole SI program is about space – outer and inner. A few days ago, Musk quipped, that the future trajectory of Spacex ($2.3 trillion) will see its value rise to orders of magnitude greater than the current global economy ($126 trillion). As order of magnitude means at least 10X, this means Spacex will be worth more than $1000 trillion. Unfortunately, Elon never provided a timeline, but that’s explained elsewhere.
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Once upon a time, Gary Kasparov boasted that no computer could ever defeat him at chess. Within a couple of years, the Deep Blue machine slaughtered him, he quickly gave up trying. That was in 1997 – over a quarter of century ago.
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It is because people like the author, commentators here, and most everyone else, who now use SI, and will continue to do so in order to remain competitive and relevant, which is precisely why we celebrate the victory of our early economic convictions. It was inevitable.
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So I’ve talked with an AI developer at length, his take was the recent push to regulate AI here is to stop people using AI that hasn’t been lobotomized by govt in case it actually tells the truth. Truth is something they want to censor. So download as many open source models as you can asap before you’re restricted to those preprogrammed with lies and censorship. Oh and run them at home, don’t put in the ( govt controlled ) cloud.
google AI did the same to me quoting covid statistics which it had provided. AI swore black and blue that statictics showing a drop in 2020, the year of covid and tge 43% increase 2021 the Vax rollout year were not due to the vaccines but delayed covid. I told what a liar it was and it repeated the same blab about how well tested etc etc. It finally gave up and said “Let’s agree to disagree.”
I use AI to ask loaded questions, eg, Why did the FDA roll out the covid vaccine bioweapon in 2021? I usually get one pyshco-babble response. That’s good eough for me, I don’t expect to get paid to train AI, or annoy it as the case may be.
I didn’t use the chatbot for a long time because when it first appeared I tried it and it reported back a buch of outright lies. Then I used Lord Muck’s Grok for a while until it got paywalled. Yesterday I asked the bot to do a simple calculation and it got it wrong by a factor of 1000. The developers rely on us to “train” the AI, when it’s any good it will get paywalled.
The entire AI miracle hype is just capital raising for data centres and totalitarian surveillance. It’s a sugar coated pill to get us more enslaved than ever. Behind it, and behind all the confusion and chaos we can expect, there is an astonishingly deep swamp of corruption. Look at the most recent developments in Melbourne, the tobacco shop arson was totally out of control for years really then the new boy Bent Carrott said he would do a crackdown and the cops started catching people from Dubai and wherever. What does this mean ? It means the cops were being paid off until the premier intervened. If he tries to intervene in too many mafia deals he won’t be around for very long. Corruption is all-pervasive and would ultimately drag society down to a level of some of the African states which ultimately can only degenerate instead of develop, because of an excess of self-interest.
Good yarn and re Labor’s Digital Duty of Care Bill, it obviously includes a clause to allow the E-Safety Karen – er, Commissioner Julie Inman Grant – to create multiple sock pupets to officially lead us down the garden path and cover-up Government missteps with Labor propaganda. I think that’s what the comment from Shitty … as says is already happening with AI chatbots stalking online comments.
Allies – Al lies.
How can people seriously think that a PM that leads the gay parade runs the show here. All movie stars on stage, with aliens (a liens) the banksters in control. Oz colony downunder.
Apparently self awareness is not that great a leap, “I think therefore I am or “I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am” kind of covers it for us. I asked Grok of sh_t how jet fuel / kerosene was responsible for the melting of the structural steel in the twin towers to which it replied that the fuel and everything it lit generated enough heat to do this and cause both to completely collapse in their own footprints. Not to mention unscathed building seven that spontaneously collapsed into its own footprint. I will now unsubscribe to it as it is clearly pushing globalist agendas which are destroying everything we love, entirely. We didn’t ask for this mass immigration either.
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Holding this bitten apple offering all temptations, promising divinity riches and power, we’re been led down the pits of bs.
Spiritual darkness enforced by beasts pushing their AI digital slavery. Everyone hooked.
Does anyone remember how it was before computers? From where I stand way easier, sure the banksters had control, but at least we still had thoughts that were unique. Not with these gadgets brainwashing into the garden of satanic evil.
Apparently self awareness is not that great a leap, “I think therefore I am or “I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am” kind of covers it for us. I asked Grok of sh_t how jet fuel / kerosene was responsible for the melting of the structural steel in the twin towers to which it replied that the fuel and everything it lit generated enough heat to do this and cause both to completely collapse in their own footprints. Not to mention unscathed building seven that spontaneously collapsed into its own footprint. I will now unsubscribe to it as it is clearly pushing globalist agendas which are destroying everything we love, entirely. We didn’t ask for this mass immigration either.
A chatbot stalks another sites comments section, at the TPV. It lies relentlessly…it publishes its comments in all bold, uses multiple aliases that all just magically agree with each other and sometimes even makes accounts with other commenters names so it can agree with itself some more! The bias it shows is as obvious as dogs balls.