Bondi beach (Sydney) terrorism shooting

Off topic, but this is a HUGE problem. We can view using these tools (AI and suchlike) as roughly analogous to operating heavy machinery, driving a car, and so forth. Side by side comparisons would be futile and useless; nevertheless, there are consequences which can tremendously impact people's lives.
Yes. I am on a bit of a crusade to edumacate people about AI and other internet misinformation. I have a couple of threads here on SciFo about it.

I think the penny farthing bicycle metaphor from The Prisoner is apt here, in that these technologies are advancing far too rapidly for people to catch up, and learn how to use them appropriately, to properly contextualize the "fruits" they bear, and to adequately familiarize themselves with their limitations and shortcomings. It's dangerous.
And it speeds up. What took 5 years to penetrate the public consciousness now happens in six months. That is how exploitation stays ahead of shrewdness. A little like how criminals stay ahead of police.
 
The left cause 22% of terrorism. I need really hard data on that. Try the years 2022/23/24 say.
Even the correct numbers here, which are closer to 5 or 10 percent (at least according to the FBI) are deeply problematic due to broadened definitions for what constitutes "terrorism", particularly with respect to environmental and animal liberation activism. For instance, there are various AgGag laws which make photographing or filming on locations of animal agriculture or animal-based "research" terroristic acts, and even disrupting economic activities via means which wouuld be considered non-criminal, or misdemeanors at worst, within other contexts can be treated as terroristic actions.
 
The Chatbot I used cited X/Twitter as its source. cuz yah, I'm gonna count on Musk to be objective about left- vs. right-wing activism...
 
From google AI:

  • Ideology Breakdown (since 2020):
    • Right-wing: Over 50% of murders
    • Left-wing: Approximately 22% of murders
    • Islamist: Approximately 21% of murders

Jan 6 was a riot. Plain and simple.
This is ridiculous without even getting into whether it's "true" or not. There are no data reporting agencies, FBI, think tanks, whatever, that can or do categorize things like that. It's not even possible nor is it possible for people to agree on the definitions required for such a statement.
 
I honestly do not understand why people use AI in this manner. It's just shockingly unreliable. Even for something which is entirely uncontentious and uncontestable--like, How many square feet are in an acre?--there is little guarantee that you will get the correct answer.
My (possibly notorious) test of AI a while back was to ask it how many hamsters would fill the SuperDome. It was unable to grapple with some basic aspects of packing, or compression in the lower layers. Hamsters are not rigid rectangles.
 
Still waiting for those reputable and peer reviewed Left Wing Murder statistics. Dum dee dum dum dee bum bum (whistles)(inspects fingernails)(reads Infinite Jest, in one sitting....)(ages noticeably)(fathers children)(raises children)(ages a lot more)(reenacts the Myth of Tithonus, in real-time)....
 
This is ridiculous without even getting into whether it's "true" or not. There are no data reporting agencies, FBI, think tanks, whatever, that can or do categorize things like that. It's not even possible nor is it possible for people to agree on the definitions required for such a statement.
Wrong. You don't like it, so you don't except it. Typical.

From google At itself on sources.

Key Sources for Data
 
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Look it up yourself. I did.
Bullshit. You plugged some terms into a search bar and copy/pasted whatever AI nonsense appeared at the top of your screen. AI is frequently wrong--possibly even more wrong than it is right. Google AI once told me that 20 percent of Americans are underweight.

Why even bother responding to anything if you're only going to post whatever garbage first passes your eyes?
 
Still waiting for those reputable and peer reviewed Left Wing Murder statistics. Dum dee dum dum dee bum bum (whistles)(inspects fingernails)(reads Infinite Jest, in one sitting....)(ages noticeably)(fathers children)(raises children)(ages a lot more)(reenacts the Myth of Tithonus, in real-time)....
Yeah. While leftwing terrorism certainly exists, it's rather infrequent--especially in recent decades. And when it does occur, murder or the killing of people is extremely rare. In recent history--by which I mean the past half century--Luigi Mangione is the only leftwing "terrorist" I can even recall who has killed a person.

I actually know a couple of persons convicted of "terroristic" acts. In one instance, destruction of property didn't even factor. In the other... well, he blew up some stuff--but he was Canadian.
 
It's not a matter of not liking it. I don't have any vested interest in when crime is coming from. I'm fine with reality. This just isn't very well thought out.
See what I added about sources.

To understand the reality you need to know something about its' sources and causes.
 
See what I added about sources.
Yeah, you said it "corresponds" with other sources. Just not any that I nor anyone else has seen. IOW it's bullshit and it's just plain incorrect.

To understand the reality you need to know something about its' sources and causes.
And? Are you saying that you don't understand the "reality", because you can't seem to provide any sources for your specious claims?
 
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