Sharon Mearns Wagner
Ken WhiteI know some of you don’t have WSJ subscriptions but I don’t want you to miss the deep thoughts of Justice Alito so here I handled it
Bruce Mirken@Popehat I'm not a legal scholar, but I believe the technical term for #SamuelAlito's writing here is "horses**t."
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@BruceMirken @Popehat I think that has been amended to horsef*ckingshit in the latest edition.
@BruceMirken @Popehat Good lord, I normally pay a decent amount of attention. My exhausted brain completely glossed over that this was AI generated by @Popehat and went straight for the joke line. I apparently need about 16 naps in a row, and then another.
Roy #EatTheRich Pardee 🇺🇸@Pineywoozle @BruceMirken @Popehat
I went to bed before this all went down, but this cleared things up for me:
ProPublica asked about Alito’s travel. He replied in the Wall Street Journal
(gift link)
@rpardee @BruceMirken @Popehat Ha! Thanks, just read it and apparently my comment is still right on target. LoL
@Pineywoozle @BruceMirken @Popehat So is that text AI-generated then? I was thinking @popehat was engaging in satire, and posted Alito's actual prose as if it had been.
I don't have the WSJ subscription, so I can't compare.
@Pineywoozle @rpardee @Popehat I've read parts of Alito's actual column. It's as silly as Popehat says, though I didn't do a word for word comparison. Basically, his attitude is, "How dare you peasants question my free private trip with my right-wing billionaire pals who've had business before the court."
@Pineywoozle @BruceMirken @Popehat All right--just b/c I somehow can't let go of this, and refuse to send $ to WSJ, I'm now pretty convinced those screenshots really are AI-generated and not Alito's real prebuttal op-ed.
BTW--corker of an Amicus podcast laying all this out: https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus/2023/06/samuel-alito-wall-street-journal-response-hot-take-ethics
Alito is a crook, just like Thomas.
@rpardee @Pineywoozle @Popehat They are and the content is different but the sense of condescension is very Alito. How can it matter that he got transported on a private plane when the seat would otherwise have gone empty? Silly peasants!
Jim. From Kansas.@Popehat Well, I'm glad that's cleared up.
aa865@Popehat ah, so, not conflict of interest, it’s just an “enhancement of understanding”. Gotcha, Sammy (wink wink)
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Andy Daitsman@Popehat That was written by ChatGPT, right?
Pack@adaitsman @Popehat AlitoGPT
Mike Roettger
quixote@adaitsman @Popehat That was my first thought. And now it's my continuing thought. Seriously, did the Alito write that burble?
Reciprocity D'Parture@adaitsman @Popehat I honestly thought it was ChatGPT.
I had to go find the source, wherein I learned the justice stayed in a simple but rustic facility where the wine certainly wasn't $1,000 and transport consisted of occupying seats that would have wastefully gone empty had he not filled the void.
Silly me
I had to go find the source, wherein I learned the justice stayed in a simple but rustic facility where the wine certainly wasn't $1,000 and transport consisted of occupying seats that would have wastefully gone empty had he not filled the void.
Silly me
@Popehat What percentage of these paragraphs could be written by ChatGPT? The language is exceptionally general and does not ground itself in specific details and facts. If I had graduate students write an essay like this, I would grade it as a C-.
BlueintheSouth@Meroettger @Popehat IKR? It's extremely repetitive and doesn't address the LAVISH GIFTS from people with BUSINESS BEFORE THE COURT
@Meroettger @Popehat One might argue 100 percent!
Rick Thoman@Popehat Capsule summary: Dear America: We rule, you don't, so f*** off.
Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱I want to know what data set that fucker was trained on.
Nihl L'Amas@rjblaskiewicz @Popehat Earily similar to my 7th-grade essay about the baseless prohibition on hats in school.
Terry Bellamak@Popehat What a load of self-serving horseshit. He takes us for fools.
The Steel Rat@Popehat Just think of the poor cold Empty seat on a plane kept warm by the kind invite of the owner to allowed a supreme court justice to sit in it
Hermey G@Popehat
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain..."
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain..."
Ton Chrysoprase@Popehat “The fact that other people pay for all of my shit doesn’t necessarily mean I have a conflict of interest” for me, “avoid the claim of appearance of conflict by even the most partisan hack” for thee.
That’s bad, but what hurts is the complete lack of effort that went into this generic piece of apologia. Did it have a multiple choice box at the start to tick off what critic it applies to?
Ande Jacobson@Popehat: If he doesn’t want everyone with a brain critisizing the court, perhaps he and his fellow rogue justices might consider actually following the code of conduct that applies to every other federal judge.
OK, there are others on the federal bench who have questionable ethics like Cannon, but she was checked and balanced by the 11th Circuit panel.
Me thinks the fellow doth protest vacuously.
joshuastar@Popehat “why are you guys being so mean to us all the time?”
Pomegranate County Irregulars@Popehat Is it really baseless to think less of someone who takes a buttload of money and wants to keep that secret?
On the other hand, if Justices Thomas and Alito were truly corrupt, we liberals would be able to outbid the conservatives.
Grandpa Don@Popehat
Who ghost wrote it for him?
He can't have written it himself. Those foreign thoughts could not survive long enough in his head for him to commit them to text.
Who ghost wrote it for him?
He can't have written it himself. Those foreign thoughts could not survive long enough in his head for him to commit them to text.
Grassroots Joe@Popehat
Oh, they have an obligation to recuse when their impartiality might reasonably be questioned do they?
Could have fooled me...
Well at least we know they're feeling the heat enough to think it necessary to gaslight us.
@Popehat How could we show personal bias?? We are DUTY BOUND!!
Karl Magnacca@Popehat You can easily tell this is AI-generated and not really Alito because it's far too level-headed and rational. Also does a better job of deflecting from the corruption.
ETA: ok after reading the replies I see it's apparently not that easy for some people even with the prompt header. 🙄
AK Montgomery@Popehat “These experiences often enhance our understanding of complex legal issues, allowing us to make more informed and reasoned decisions.” Yeah, that’s called LOBBYING, ya twit and it’s what we’re pissed about. You change your opinions based on interactions with LOBBYISTS.
toxtethogrady@Popehat How much chutzpah does he have this time?
@Popehat Wow, AI captures his essence so well… maybe it’s because Alito is really a chatbot in disguise? 🤔
Merc@Popehat I don't think ChatGPT is going to take Stephen King's job anytime soon. But, it really is good at these empty statements that take multiple paragraphs to say absolutely nothing.
I bet there's some guy in crisis comms at a PR firm who's pretty worried.
Mark Tomczak@merc @Popehat Oh, I don't doubt for a second it threatens a lot of jobs of people that have communications degrees.
... were I a conspiracy theorist (and I'm not!), I'd note that they're the kind of people more likely to have access to media outlets where they can write think-pieces on how AI is bad for society.
McNeely@Popehat I was just shaking my head at this article but I then I started thinking of that article you wrote about recusal and it made me wonder if there's anything similar going on here. There's nothing like that scenario where "the plain language reading" means something different in a legal context is there?
Laura Kosloff@Popehat He has guaranteed a huge interest in the Propublica piece when it runs.
Ed@legallaurak @Popehat just finished reading it...
Victor CastonCompletely on the nose
EmergencyJoe
jackhutton 🇺🇸@Popehat lol.. ChatGPT..
lessbarb@Popehat lacked pith, but okay.
Diana Brickell@Popehat That was great.
And by “great,” I mean terrible.
Naomi@Popehat A fine example of the kind of auto-procto-hermit-crabbery that society's most privileged can always be relied upon to engage in when criticised.
That Anonymous CowardAI has one thing one humans...
It managed the first paragraph without bursting into laughter.
Sloan Studio@Popehat Is every conservative justice on the court dirty? It seems so…
Michael Wyman@Popehat the AI seems to capture his general attitude quite well.
SkentBrott@Popehat
Because it's the Supreme Court (the highest court in the land) in must have oversight regardless of politics.
Because it's the Supreme Court (the highest court in the land) in must have oversight regardless of politics.
Gregory@Popehat I think he was able to write down every catchphrase of idyllic America that used to be true.
Jesse@Popehat practicing Poe's Law now are we?
Chris Geidner