With #ChatGPT having such a buzz I've been amused to notice the similarity between that program and some of the dumber political commentators in #USPolitics.

As I understand it, ChatGPT operates by predicting what word would likely follow previous words and prompts, so it has no actual understanding of any of the words, it just parrots words and phrases that seem right.

The duller pundits do exactly the same thing, often misusing particular words and idiomatic phrases. Heck, ChatGPT probably does a better job! But it highlights how thoughtless those speakers are, and that they work by pandering to their audiences.

My favorite example of this is Sean Hannity appearing to have no idea what the term bellwether actually means as he parrots the term "bellwether state" to mean any state with a close or important election coming up. Well the phrase seems like it should follow whatever else he was going on about, so he uses it in his rambling chain of thought.

Plenty has been said about how ChatGPT is or is not a threat to different occupations, but I'm pretty sure it could replace a whole lot of these morons offering opinions on current events.

(And to be fair, I don't like to use such derisive language, but these people really deserve it: they really are just that ignorant and idiotic in their pronouncements, and their lack of understanding of their own words is both amusing and depressing.)