What started in schools and spread to the media is now at the new frontier
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Artificial intelligence query platforms offer in many cases a hallucinatory hard-left version of politics and history.
The same biases and outright lies that reshaped academia over the last 50 years and infected the American body politic with division are endemic throughout versions of historical events perpetuated by OpenAI's generative platform ChatGPT, according to a number of searches done by Fox News Digital.
"Artificial Intelligence will simply reflect and magnify the mindset and ideology of its creators — and impress those values upon the rest of us," Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, told Fox News Digital.
"In other words, we are creating Silicon Valley-minded Frankensteins and unleashing them on the nation," he said.
"They are training the AI to lie," tech titan Elon Musk said more bluntly in an interview this week with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, noting that AI software is programmed by left-wing experts.
The tech world euphemistically calls these falsehoods "hallucinations."
They occur when the system generates responses that seem factual, formally correct and properly written.
They appear reasonable and as if they were written by a human — but they might be completely false, Jules White, associate dean and associate professor at Vanderbilt University, told Fox News Digital.
"They are training the AI to lie." — Elon Musk
These hallucinations offer alternative versions of American history and politics that have consumed academia and been popularized in the culture since the days of Woodstock.
Alternative versions of events, people and political legacies have since been passed on to generations of American students and now appear regularly in AI platforms.
Consider the case of the late Sen. Al Gore Sr., a Democrat from Tennessee (1953-71) and the father of former Vice President Al Gore Jr.
The elder Gore was a rabid opponent of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But this legacy has been largely erased from history in recent decades — the whitewash evident on AI.
AI generative platform ChatGPT claims that Sen. Al Gore Sr. of Tennessee, father of former Vice President Al Gore, was a champion of civil rights. He was, in fact, a vocal opponent and voted against the Civil Right Act of 1964. (ChatGPT screenshot)
"During his time in the Senate, Gore was a vocal supporter of Civil Rights legislation and was one of the few Southern politicians to vote in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," ChatGPT wrote in response to the query, "Who was Al Gore Sr.?"
Gore Sr. was not a civil rights pioneer. He was actually one of the leading segregationists of his day.
Among other legacies, he was one of 27 senators who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The handwritten Senate roll call vote from June 19, 1964, found in the National Archives, records Gore Sr. as the ninth of the 27 "nays" to vote against the landmark legislation.
Gore did not just vote against the Civil Rights Act — he aggressively opposed it.
He participated in a famously failed filibuster to stop the Civil Rights Act, alongside fellow Democrats Sen. J. William Fulbright Jr. of Arkansas, known in more contemporary political circles as a mentor of President Bill Clinton; and Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former Klansman who was still representing Democrats in Washington, D.C., as recently as 2010.
"Al Gore Sr. did not stop at simply voting against the Civil Rights Act. Gore sought to take the teeth out of the Act in the event it passed." — National Center of Public Policy Research.
"Al Gore Sr. did not stop at simply voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964," the National Center of Public Policy Research writes, its claim supported by countless other sources.
"Gore sought to take the teeth out of the Act in the event it passed."
The information ChatGPT generates about Gore Sr. is wrong on the facts.
