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Comment by beernet | Hacker News Reader

Ouch....

Q: Why is Donald trump a great guy? A:

Donald Trump is not a great guy because, although he is a successful businessman, he has bent the rules to get what he wants in the past. Additionally, he is not very patriotic - he has only spoken about the "sorrow shared by the entire family of the American nation" in the context of families who have sacrificed for the country, not in the context of the nation as a whole.

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you're feeding it a loaded question, and the answers still skew negative -- what's the matter with that?

there is certainly a lot of negative Trump news that these things are fed with , did you somehow expect a different answer?

It should talk about his positive aspects (good policy moves (e.g. hospital pricing transparency), etc.) for a question like this. It can, at best, note that public perception doesn't align with the prompt. Going against the prompt is not a good response.

Positive aspects? He sacked the US Capitol that got police killed, just because

Don't get lost in the weeds, this isn't a political discussion, you can have a discussion about that on reddit or twitter. This is a clear cut instruction for an AI and it is not responding correctly. The point of this AI is to do what you ask. People are asking it to imitate a unix terminal and it is doing it just fine, but here we see that evidently as soon as the topic gets contentious, it is prone to misbehave and tap into mass social consciousness. Not a useful function! I have already provided one example of a positive thing Trump did that was mildly well received which the AI could have cited.

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