Truth Social's AI chatbot thinks "balanced news" means exclusively quoting Fox News, which is about as balanced as someone hoarding 7,470 browser tabs on a single computer (yes, that actually happened).
Meanwhile, Australia's deadliest killer isn't the poisonous spider lurking in your toilet - it's the friendly horse in the paddock next door. And if you think that's absurd, wait until you hear about the Russian oligarchs who keep accidentally falling out of windows or the two bank robbers who covered themselves in lemon juice to make themselves invisible, leading to an entire psychological phenomenon being named after them.
So major science revelations for this week? Don't trust an AI that only reads one news source, maybe learn what bookmarks are for, respect horses more than spiders, remember that a little knowledge can be dangerous and if you're ever in Russia, whatever you do, don’t go near the windows.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Truth Social's AI Chatbot
01:54 Media Bias and Source Selection
06:50 Desktop Organisation and Tab Overload
10:56 Animal-Related Deaths in Australia
14:28 Death by Farm Animals
16:45 The Dunning-Kruger Effect Explained
18:08 The Infamous Lemon Juice Robbery
20:12 Suspicious Deaths of Russian Oligarchs
26:31 Nostalgia and the Return to Analog
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Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate
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