The Danger of Elon Musk's "TruthGPT" | Tucker Carlson.

now we got a touch on Elon musk's desire

to Star a truth a GPT now Elon just

launched a LLC or company and is

potentially looking to raise money from

shareholders called x dot a i and

shareholders would probably be private

venture-backed shareholders who are

already shareholders in companies like

Tesla and Twitter so not something we'd

publicly be able to invest in but a lot

of this is inspired by Elon musk's

frustration with openai turning into

really a for-profit rather than being a

non-profit especially since he helped

start open Ai and there's a lot of drama

around hey wait a minute what is a

truthful Ai and why does it matter well

we'll listen to a clip here from Elon

Musk in just a moment but I want to

start by pointing out this uh this

community notes response that Elon Musk

had following one of his tweets and so

Elon Musk tweeted the fall following he

said NPR literally said Federal funding

is essential to public radio on their

own website now taking down what

Hypocrites now I believe you could

actually still find this NPR Federal

funding item on their website they're

pretty transparent about their funding

sources but it is a little confusing to

break apart because some parts they like

to say oh well in some years we average

one percent from federal organizations

and then the reality is they're kind of

like misdefining exactly where some of

the money comes from and really a lot of

this is blowing up right now because

companies like NPR are basically getting

notes put under uh of their uh their

actual Twitter tags showing that uh hey

they are

backed by the government for example

here you have NPR has a tag government

funded Media or another one that's

pretty funny that came up yesterday was

the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation if

you go to just at CBC they uh they argue

they were less than 70 percent funded by

the government so Elon Musk helped label

them as 69

government-funded media

which on one hand is pretty dang funny

on the other hand makes you wonder wait

a second whose truth really goes into

this information and that does create

some potential problems because for

example here is a community notes

response to this that says at the time

of this tweet there we go at the time of

this tweet NPR's website dedicated to

their finances still claim that Federal

funding is essential so Elon Musk

actually got community noted on this so

it's not taken down NPR is still

claiming that Federal funding is

essential to the public radio service to

the American public

now what I reply to with this because

it's been such a big deal is I replied

uh when I can find my reply I think I

have to press back twice him I replied

it said unbelievable that Community

notes left out the percent of funding

and I said I lost some respect for

Community notes now if you weren't part

of the big debate around this that might

seem extreme hey Community notes is just

comparing or just suggesting that Hey

look it's still essential right we're

just fixing that item from Elon musk's

tweet and that's fair but all of this is

based on a massive debate on Twitter

about what percentage of NPR's funding

is from the government is it one percent

is it ten percent is it 15 and in my

opinion if Community notes is going to

come in and talk about this Federal

funding you have to also talk about the

percentage because even though NPR

suggests that they're funding their

government funding is essential you have

to remember what the word essential

means and it's something that nobody on

Twitter is talking about and the reason

this is important is because of

congressional Appropriations see that is

the most important thing that is

on Twitter and that's pretty common

because we're generally trying to look

for the most emotional responses to hate

or support people and it's really sad

how frustrated people are on Twitter I

really feel like everybody if if people

on Twitter were walking around they'd

all be walking around like this their

hands on their hips and with just like a

big scowl like hmm yeah I support that

but you're an if that's really

what Twitter feels like and to me it's a

cesspool it's disgusting because

nobody's really trying to delve into

truth instead you're getting this war

and so I think it's ironic that Elon

Musk is trying to create truth a truth

GPT when actually what you're seeing on

Twitter is very much a fostering of

divisiveness now there's this idea that

well maybe people should be able to

speak freely but really what you're

doing is you're creating Echo Chambers

and even Community notes isn't helping

with that Echo chamber problem if

anything it often feels like it leans

more towards just supporting Elon

overall in his arguments because again

it whether or not Elon was Community

noted for saying oh they took it down

from their website that's not the part

that matters the part that actually

matters the next level part that matters

is well is Government funding for NPR

essential but why does that word

essential really matter well calling

something essential is more important

than actually deciding whether or not

that quote-unquote essential funding

actually dictates how NPR's news

coverage is created or dispersed or if

there is independent journalism calling

something essential is critical because

when you look at Congressional

Appropriations

Congress wants to appropriate money to

where things are needed in the

impression of the other companies right

and so this in my opinion is where NPR

is like well we don't really want to

lose that Federal funding even though

they could probably make up some of

their Federal funding from other sources

or potentially all of it I think it's a

lot easier for them to say hey Congress

we're essential don't take our money

away now that's my opinion it could be

wrong right it's entirely possible yes

the money is actually essential but I

know what NPR does their membership

drives and they talk about their

basically expiring coupon code like I do

because we're having a big price

increase tomorrow on 420 at the end of

the day at 11 59 we're getting rid of

some of the lower bondwell options we're

getting rid of some of the lower priced

uh courses we're raising the prices

we're changing things completely so if

you want to lock in the lowest price

jump in but just like people say Hey you

know I don't want to hear about the

coupon code all the time you don't want

to hear about the fall membership drive

at NPR All NPR all the time but that's

what they do to raise money so they

could stay in business and actually

provide value to their constituents

right and so in my opinion this

definition of essential goes to

Congressional Appropriations and it's

basically a way saying look it's easier

for just us to just take some of that

money from Congress and then not cut us

out now then that does make you wonder

is NPR impartial because of that maybe

personally this video isn't designed to

defend or support NPR I actually

personally like listening to NPR but

that doesn't mean I I agree with

everything they say just like when I

listen to the English paper the

economists they lean super far left and

they hate Donald Trump do I listen and

believe everything they say no of course

not but I use it as inspiration to fact

check that's the same thing that you

should do as well so you can make up

your own opinion but my argument is that

hey if we really want to get to the

bottom of Truth in social media then we

have to provide context to the entire

discussion not just one tweet and this

was a missed Opportunity by Community

notes where Community notes could have

very simply broken down the debate hey

in 2010 NPR's funding was this in 2010

through 2023 the funding was this XYZ

it's all public Community notes could

have easily broken that down but instead

it seemed more interested in saying no

no it's essential which is basically

taking the side of Elon even though it

was a note against Elon is taking it

aside of Elon and the Elon fans on

Twitter rather than actually adding more

detailed support to the debate so I

question elon's calls for the greatest

truth GT GPT because I don't think

Community notes is doing the best job

yet I think it's useful it's going in

the right direction but it has some work

to do and it all is in response to this

Tucker Carlson piece with Elon Musk

let's listen to this and see what Elon

has to say

and it's not playing quite fun there we

go to a success of uh open AI uh it was

I I I put a trans amount of effort into

recruiting Ilia and he changed his mind

a few times ultimately decided to go

with the opening high but if he'd not

gone without any opening I would not

have succeeded I really put a lot a lot

of effort into creating this this

organization to serve as a counterweight

to Google and then I kind of took my off

the ball I guess and uh

they are now closed Source

um and

they are obviously for-profit and

they're

closely allied with Microsoft uh you

know in effect Microsoft uh

has a very strong say if not

um

directly controls uh openai at this

point so you really have an open-end

Microsoft situation and then at Google

deepmind uh other two sort of

heavyweights in this Arena

so it seems like the world needs a third

option

yes

so I I I think I will

create a third option although I was

starting very late in the game of course

can it be done I don't know I think it's

we'll see it's uh

certainly starting late

um

but I will I will I'll try to create a

third option

um and that third option hopefully does

more more good than harm uh like the

intention with opening eye was obviously

to do good but it's not clear whether

it's actually doing good or whether it's

I can't tell at this point except that

I'm worried about the fact that uh it's

been it's being trained to be

politically correct which is simply

another way of of being on Truth saying

untruthful things yes so that's that's a

bad sign

there's certainly a path to AI dystopia

is to train an AI to be deceptive so

yeah I'm going to start something which

you call truth gbt or

a maximum truth seeking AI

that tries to understand the nature of

the universe and I think this this might

be the best path to Safety in the sense

that an AI that cares about

understanding the universe uh it is

unlikely to annihilate humans because we

are an interesting part of the universe

uh hopefully they would think about it I

I think you know because yeah like like

we like Humanity could

um decide to hunt down all the

chimpanzees and kill them but we don't

yeah and so they go into this argument

that a like hopefully you could create

something that cares up most about the

truth that then doesn't want to destroy

all the other organisms that exist just

like we don't destroy whales or

chimpanzees or otherwise now later in

this interview Elon Musk talks about how

social media often comes it turns into

the Cesspool where everybody's fighting

for clicks and then you have this

argument of everybody's trying to fight

about how the other Clan hates the other

person rather than focusing on getting

to the truth or getting to food right

and that's very much unfortunately what

I think elon's Community notes can

sometimes actually contribute to is this

divisiveness see for example here's a

comma term and I appreciate you saying

this Kevin I'm a member of community

notes and rated that tweet direct

funding is different year by year and

indirect funding also fed funds is given

by different organizations yearly our

goal wasn't an itemized audit I

understand that your goal might not have

been an itemized audit my argument is

that it should have been and here is why

I say that because if Elon Musk wants to

create something that is looking for the

utmost truth if the answer is truth then

what we need is data and instead of

analyzing data or providing data in this

case Community notes simply provided

one minor argument in a larger debate

that reiterated one side you have to

think about that Community notes

reiterating that NPR is still saying

funding is essential is taking one side

of the debate think about that when we

draw this out like this if on one side

you have NPR is gov Shale right and then

on the right side you have

NPR is independent

okay

they're independent whatever

so on one side you have NPR's

independent on the other side you have

NPR as a is a government chill

in order to get to the maximum level of

Truth which is a goal that Community

notes is trying to do it shouldn't

Simply Be Community noting something

that actually reiterates that's it NPR

is a government chill that's what

community notes did it it made a

correction In fairness it made a

correction but by making that correction

and not stepping into the rest of the

debate to actually remain neutral it de

facto chose a side and it happened to be

the side that Elon Musk was on and that

is scary

so I know it might seem extreme but the

reality is if elon's going to be trusted

with a truth GT GPT which anybody can

create whatever they want then you

should also do your best to help settle

disputes if you're a member of community

notes by providing as much data as

possible even if you have a little

preface that says hey government like it

could be as simple as there's a debate

going around on NPR here's the reality a

NPR still says it's government uh or or

government funding is still essential

but here are more details on the debate

NPR's average funding has been eight

percent from government sources and PR

says they're independent uh Elon Musk is

debating creating a threshold for at

what point of government funding a

business should be deemed government

supported and then that should equally

apply to other businesses if certain

media businesses are eight percent

funded by the government then maybe if n

phase is 10 8 supported by the

government it should be considered a

government supported Enterprise as well

or Tesla

so that should apply equally and so

really I'm not here to Shell NPR or Elon

I'm probably taking the most unpopular

opinion which is again trying to be in

the middle but the reality is if you

don't fully extinguish the debate and

you just take us uh one side then

Community notes actually looks like it's

partisan all of a sudden Community notes

looks like it's just a bunch of Elon

shills doing something to support Elon

Musk even though they were correcting

Elon

they still took us that side of the

greater debate Elon doesn't care about

being corrected if anything and this is

the Sinister way to look at it Elon

could have purposefully made the mistake

on his tweet to purposefully be

Community noted and then have Community

notes reiterate his basic argument that

NPR is the government shell

that's touchy that's touchy uh uh so I

don't disagree Kevin but the point of

community notes is context to a specific

claim not the larger argument

that's a very fair Counterpoint uh I

agree with you

I would take it a step further though

and say if if the broad goal is to

maximize truth

than if somebody inputs an argument they

should get both sides right like for

example

if I put into truth GPT and say uh is

Donald Trump racist and it just says no

or yes whatever it says right and then

give me an example of Donald Trump being

racist and it's like here's an example

where Donald Trump you know said

something about a black person whatever

right

uh and then you're like give me an

example of where Donald Trump said

something about a white person it does

fine

in such an example in theory it would be

useful for the truth GPT to also go hey

look you asked for this but just keep in

mind here's a whole host of data and

information that suggests that yes out

of context one of those comments may

have been made but in aggregate

so-and-so is likely not racist or likely

racist because if we create a binary

world that is you're either for me or

against me then we have a disastrous

world and that's really what I'm

exemplifying here you're creating you're

creating a one side versus the other

side but humanity is is much more

complex than that and humanity is is

what I call a gradient right this is

what you have you have a gradient and so

you have people at various different

elements you have people over here on

the left you have people over here on

the right and the more you are to these

these edges the more extremes you have

the vast majority of people I would

imagine rest over here and and these

people this is probably 80 percent right

here they deserve both sides of the

argument not just one and unfortunately

that Community known example was

providing just one piece of data which

reiterates just one side of the spectrum

and it doesn't even provide the

suggestion like a button that's like hey

if you want more of our opinion on the

or like the community notes view of this

debate click here

well then again you're not actually

leading the world to realize there's

more truth to be had than just one

little correction so again by making one

correction and not others you're de

facto taking a silence a problem so that

is uh my advice to maybe uh the truth

GPT folks if uh if there should ever

become a truth GPT and that is my take

on Elon Musk and Truth GPT people like

oh Kevin's always an Elon and Tesla

shield no I I personally try to look for

truth as well and that doesn't mean I'm

perfect but I really try even if it's

unpopular to do I really try to look for

what's the middle of the road what are

both sides of the argument because

reality is I think most people eighty

percent of people

serve both sides

I mean really everybody does but some

people won't want to hear it cheers

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