Episode No. 75- "All Hat and No Cattle" Digging Into Pseudo-Studies Issued by Activist Groups with Guest Eric Granof

You know, one of the things that I looked at as a result of your presentation is, you know, we're hearing all this stuff about AI.

And, you know, Abilene, Texas, you know, just four hours away, they've opened up one of the first data centers in the United States for one of these AI facilities.

And so, you know, I just used this example of criminal justice reform, bail reform.

And when you ask AI or artificial intelligence the questions on criminal justice reform that we already know the answer to because we want to see, is it true artificial intelligence? And it starts spitting back questions.

these pseudo studies stuff that's just being issued by these activist groups and we know we've done presentations or podcasts about you know this network of groups that you know Soros has set up where you know one of the groups just all they do is issue pseudo studies saying here's the studies that will support these soft on crime policies that you're going to implement and then you have another group that's going to sell it to your your public well as a result of them flooding Google with these pseudo studies, you end up getting that being spit back as artificial intelligence when it's not.

And so we've discovered that this artificial intelligence is a true artificial intelligence.

The reason why it takes so much electricity is it's a news aggregator.

It's saving all the data on the internet and then it's pulling it all together.

And so if you flood Google, Google with fake studies or studies that don't say, I mean, they're just crap, then that's what Google artificial intelligence is going to spit back.

Well, it's interesting that you just bring that up because I just had a conversation with someone about this.

And I'm actually doing a presentation at PBUS on Wednesday next week about this very topic.

But it's very interesting.

I actually, I almost feel like when I've run, when I've asked AI a question, like if I use Grok or ChatGPT, or if I go and I use a Claude, and I asked them a question about the Brennan Center report, or I asked them about bail reform or one of these studies.

I'm actually finding that because it's aggregating and maybe it hasn't been around as long as Google or whatever, that it actually gives you a little bit of information from both sides better than if you were to just do a Google search, right? You do a Google search for any term that there is, okay? You're going to get 9 out of 10 results on the first page of Google.

Bad, negative, negative press.

And the one that other one is not negative is more neutral.

Right.

And then you've got to go three, four or five pages in before you ever find an article that tells the other side.

and so the question i have is if google's goal is to educate people and give people answers right help them find things they're not doing a good job of it because they're so they're only showing people one side people don't have the ability to have both sides of the argument to make a educated decision because everything is negative on google and then i started thinking about that well is the algorithm being fair is the algorithm not being fair.

But then you have to think about Google's bias towards bail in the first place.

I mean, we can't even do paid advertising with Google.

So that shows you off the bat, there is a little bias built into Google already.

So is it that there's that much content out there by the other side, or is it a combination of that and Google bias that shows that we never show up when someone puts in a bail reform term?

But if you wanted to give them a better intent than that, you could also say- Google's not an expert on bail and how are they going to triage what's true and what's not true.

So when, when the Brennan, you know, Brennan center for justice issues, uh, a report saying defunding the police will make us safer, but then we've got, uh, Two professors from colleges issue a report saying crime will increase immediately, but that's behind a paywall because it's at a university.