• Tower@lemm.ee
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    I know most are not fans of AI, but summarizing Ben Shapiro videos without having to watch them is a pretty good use case

    Gemini Video Summary
    Here is a summary of the video, broken down into key points:

    • Ben Shapiro’s position: The video discusses Ben Shapiro’s challenging position, as he tries to balance his disagreements with the Trump administration and the financial requirements of The Daily Wire [00:00].
    • Daily Wire’s Financial Issues: The video references a deep dive on YouTube by Jose, which highlights The Daily Wire’s financial troubles. These issues are attributed to the company’s entertainment ambitions [00:41].
    • Criticism of Trump and Navarro: The video mentions Shapiro’s attempt to influence Trump to heed more sensible conservatives and to dismiss Peter Navarro. It criticizes Navarro’s trade deficit formula and tariff policies [02:06].
    • Candace Owens and Anti-Semitism: The video touches on Ben Shapiro’s past association with Candace Owens, pointing out that he overlooked her anti-Semitic remarks until she criticized Israel [05:15].
    • Trump’s behavior: The video also includes a discussion about Donald Trump, referencing his past comments and behavior [08:40].
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        Bigger worry is that it could be learning from this shit. We could be turbo-pushing the Overton window by feeding it drives of brain-dead shit.

        For every 1 zombie vid you summarize, you should give it two 60+ minute quality videos to summarize.

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          Well the good news is that AI has zero ability to make value judgements on normalacy of veiws or interpret novel data. It’s just fancy statistics that you can manually set parameters on what to favour or rules to follow.

          Just cuz it gets more of something doesn’t mean it starts picking sides. People are paid to fine tune it’s reactions and conclusions manually.

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      he overlooked her anti-semitic remarks until she criticized Isreal?

      that’s one of the takes you could have from all this, Ben

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      I watch people like Ben Shapiro all the time because I don’t want to exclusively live in my echo chamber and it’s good to challenge your beliefs and staying up to date with all sides.

      I prefer the more moderate conservatives but it’s good to watch everything.

      Something i am concerned about here on Lemmy is the instant downvoting without discussion of dissenting opinions. Hardly conducive to bringing about a revolution if we won’t even engage with certain people.

      Seems like a massive circle jerk at times where we can all feel superior because we have empathy. But i want actual change and not just to seem like I’m progressive.

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        I get what you’re saying but people like Ben Shapiro, Candice Owens, etc have proven themselves to be shitstain propagandists many years ago. Regularly consuming propaganda, even if you know what it is, is not healthy and it does affect you.

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        I agree it’s good to subject yourself to other viewpoints but I’m definitely not going to subject myself to actual propaganda

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          All news is propaganda, every side has an agenda it’s just some align more with our morals.

          I for one need to know what the lunatics are being told by the grifters so I can formulate arguments against their outlandish claims.

          Just my thoughts on it and I am a nobody really.

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            valid but I think the specific brand that Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro have is obviously part of Republican media out reach that is becoming increasingly divorced from reality

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            I recommend an intermediary like Rm Brown on youtube. Watching him let’s me keep tabs on the latest stupid going ons without needing to steep myself in it.

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        That’s like saying, “Yeah like to drink Clorox because i like to know what the poison tastes like.”

        I understand it though. I used to be like that. Now I’m too old to waste my time on them.

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            I don’t rightly expect whether I watch propaganda to change the opinions of those that believe it. Just because “they” won’t consume content I know to be good, that means I should consume content I know to be bad to balance it out?

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            The “other side” can’t be helped with mere words because they’ve been conditioned to ignore reality (or they’ve picked their position on feelings and don’t want to change). Libs watching Benny shaps lie and support genocide isn’t going to change the maga electorate.

            As soon as you find a conservative who doesn’t lie, let me know and I’ll check out some of their content, but I don’t think there’s literally a single honest gop supporter these days.

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    I’ll have to take your word for it, I’m not listening to that voice any more than necessary.