Obama's planning a coup: Google Home is sharing fake news stories

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Facebook may be attempting to fight fake news with its recently introduced tagging feature, but it seems Google may want to bring in extra controls over false stories, too. According to Google Home, the company’s Amazon Echo-like smart speaker, Barack Obama is planning a coup d’etat in the US and all Republicans are Nazis.

SearchEngineLand editor Danny Sullivan noted that when you typed a question into Google Search about whether the former president was planning a coup, the top answer was: “According to details exposed in Western Centre for Journalism’s exclusive video, not only could Obama be in bed with the communist Chinese, but Obama may in fact be planning a communist coup d’état at the end of his term in 2016!”

Google’s virtual assistant gave the same response, and you don’t even get the option to hear other answers. BBC tech correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones posted a video to Twitter showing Google Home warning of Obama’s secret intentions.

Google’s fake replies weren’t restricted to right-wing conspiracy theories; Sullivan asked Google Home if Republicans were fascists, to which he was told “Yes, Republicans equal Nazis.”

The problem comes from Google’s “featured Snippets,” which are algorithmically generated quick answers sourced from web pages that rank highly in search results – so they aren’t curated, obviously. It’s been known to surface bizarre answers to questions such as “how many presidents were in the KKK?” (at least five, according to Google), “what happened to the dinosaurs?” (“they are used more than anything else to indoctrinate children and adults in the idea of millions of years of earth history,”), and “are women evil?” (it seemed to suggest so).

Google says it removes these sort of answers when alerted to them. A company spokesperson gave the following statement:

Featured Snippets in Search provide an automatic and algorithmic match to a given search query, and the content comes from third-party sites. Unfortunately, there are instances when we feature a site with inappropriate or misleading content. When we are alerted to a Featured Snippet that violates our policies, we work quickly to remove them, which we have done in this instance. We apologize for any offense this may have caused.

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Video 1: Probably truth masquerading as theory.

Video 2: Progressives have been saying that for years.

Video 3: Woke.

I like this robot.
 
WSJ should be all over this! The word Nazi has been spoken out loud by a Robot! They could run a story about how Google's planning to start World War 3 or something.

Back on topic, this is incredibly funny. My friend has an Amazon Echo and he run an app on it and told it to abuse me. She kept calling me names and telling me I'm a failure in life. These new Robots are mean AF.
 
It's a lot more entertaining than Alexa having no idea how to respond to the question.

Trump vs Ted Cruz in a nutshell.

Video 1: Probably truth masquerading as theory.

Video 2: Progressives have been saying that for years.

Video 3: Woke.

I like this robot.

The pre-disposition bias here is obvious. Neither have any proof yet you lend one more credence. Objective thinking is hard.
 
This made me LOL. I would say this would be an incentive to own a Google Home just for the entertainment value. I just thought of a game one could play with party guests and Google Home. "Guess what Google is thinking"
 
Fake facts are bad enough...the Internet is so easily gamed that whoever has the best bots and the most active group of truth benders controls the message. However, anyone with a webcam and some relatively low-cost software can produce "reality" content that rivals anything that a network puts out, and that includes news. As CGI becomes increasingly realistic and cost-effective we will enter an era where nothing that's been recorded more than a few hours earlier will be trustworthy. That's probably five years away. Anyone with an agenda, the necessary technology and a distinct lack of ethics will be releasing doctored video. Governments and their pet media will be at the forefront of this Orwellian nightmare and many "independent" voices will get rich by selling their support to the highest bidder. The powers-that-be will do anything to maintain control, and that means fake news will soon become the rule rather than the exception. The field of digital forensics, esp. relating to media content, will present enormous opportunities for professionals who are called upon to sort out the real from the rubbish. Very soon the only video you'll be able to trust will be streamed real-time from multiple independent sources. Personally I don't want to live in a world like that but right now it seems unavoidable.
 
Well, when the left fills the web with lies and fake news and google relies on the web, this is what you get. LIES!
 
Video 1: Probably truth masquerading as theory.

Video 2: Progressives have been saying that for years.

Video 3: Woke.

I like this robot.
This is a tech site, chat the merits of the google technology. Every human has a liberal and conservative bend on issues. Just ask the right question of each. Would you ever be concerned with the politics of the person who cures your child's cancer? Dumb!
 
It's no secret that Google is 100% behind the anti Trump movement , they are NEVER to be trusted just like Fakebook ABC, CNN, MSNBC,ABC,CBS ,FOX, NBC, NYT, HUFFPOST, WASHPOST and all the rest .

They are all anti USA pro communist promoting scumbags. Amazing that they protest against the only guy who is 100% pro USA and is pushing for school choice and equal rights for the poor and forgotten but praise a guy who was an anti American Islamic communist who was hell bent in destroying everything that was good about the USA.

The idiocy on the left is unprecedented . The dem party is nothing remotely close to the dem party of the past , it's now only about violence and extreme intolerance .

They worship Saul Alinsky's principles , Alinsky's 8 steps are what dem's follow to the T .
 
LOL ... The treason trying to destroy America are the liberal media press & news ,liberal silly con valley and the elite globalists , the Clinton crime family,Kerry , Barack Obama the chicago gangster and alt-left radical ,his mamma Valarie Jarrett the slumlord and political hack ,his crew,Holder the gun runner ,Liberal academia ,liberal teachers unions ,Hollywood liberals and posers EPA ,DoE, Energy,IRS , liberal courts ,unelected ,blue coast identity politics and immigration policy for liberal votes without regard for Americans or America ,duplicitous Rhinos ,Nafta , the southern border gaping holes ,the *****s to the north ,democrats on the hill and so on.

On the Donald Trump (now Pres. Trump ) Wire tap(s) reports given BHO's Chicago ganster politics and Saul Alinsky activist history and the BHO admin. it's all more than entirely plausible . BHO even wiretapped Frau: Merkel .
 
It's no secret that Google is 100% behind the anti Trump movement , they are NEVER to be trusted just like Fakebook ABC, CNN, MSNBC,ABC,CBS ,FOX, NBC, NYT, HUFFPOST, WASHPOST and all the rest .

They are all anti USA pro communist promoting scumbags. Amazing that they protest against the only guy who is 100% pro USA and is pushing for school choice and equal rights for the poor and forgotten but praise a guy who was an anti American Islamic communist who was hell bent in destroying everything that was good about the USA.

The idiocy on the left is unprecedented . The dem party is nothing remotely close to the dem party of the past , it's now only about violence and extreme intolerance .

They worship Saul Alinsky's principles , Alinsky's 8 steps are what dem's follow to the T .

Actually the widely quoted 8 steps to a revolution being played out by the liberals ,BHO and his crew , dems on the hill ,the liberal media ,hollywood and so on while they are all Saul Alinsky tactics ,they are incorrectly attributed to him in the 8 step format .


My 6 major Steps to a Liberal Tyranny or liberal poser tyranny .
1.widespread alt- left leaning liberalism and deliberately uninformed and revisionist history educated and mislead citezens if they learn history and civics at all .
2.liberal social populism and social justice posers .
3.economic,cultural & social decline , high taxation and deficit spending until other peoples money runs out .
4.collectivism/socialism/widespread shortages ,food shortages & poverty usually accompanied by civil unrest when other peoples money runs out .
5. Tyrannical totalitarian oligarchy and a centrally planned efficient economy and over regulation and loss of personal freedoms and properties and nationalizing economies.
6. Above can invoke an authoritative political doctrine, loss of personal freedoms ,civil unrest,civil disobedience looting ,corruption, riots ,widespread poverty and systemic shortages including housing shortages ,medical care shortages , military deployments against the population and routine political imprisonment and instability .


Does all this sound all too alt-left Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton and democrats on the hill familiar these days ?

All this is funded and abetted by elite globalists to get and stay in power re: the liberals ,George Soros,Tom Steyer ,the greens ,climate change fraud,Bill Gates , Google ,Silly con valley ,Hollywood ,the liberal media & press and the alphabet networks ,Globalists ,liberal academia ,democrats and democrats on the hill , globalist corporations and so on


Look to Cuba,Venezuela ,the old Soviet Union and the old eastern bloc the two World Wars ,and of course History back to Karl Marx and the Russian Revolution to see how tyrannical oligarchs result .....☺
 
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Trump vs Ted Cruz in a nutshell.



The pre-disposition bias here is obvious. Neither have any proof yet you lend one more credence. Objective thinking is hard.
There are good arguments that the alt left. , alt right and mainstream liberal media and body politic , the executive and the judicial all need watchdogs now☺
OTOH some of the modern liberals should put some critical thought in their collective clueless vacant minds and quit voting foolishly if they voted liberal .

Mindless liberal proletarian ants ,celebrities and the mindless liberal body politic are usually waiting for the liberal elites to think for them and give them their government largesse all the proletariat liberal rubbish are one but the rich liberals mislead and oppress the poor liberals to stay in power and stay wealthy
 
The only parts of political and global warming comments in which to believe, in current reports in our society, is the punctuation and increasing illiteracy, although the punctuation is incorrect in many reports.
 
Rob, your knack for coaxing strongly held beliefs from typically silent readers is uncanny.. imagining them actually reading what their own supporters write always brings a smile (I know, 'obviously' impossible, but my imagination gets ooc).
That Google's search engine believes that Obama is planning a coup doesn't bother me either, as it is a long known, well evaluated and 'obvious' factoid (note, I did not follow the links for support of 'obvious' political manipulations, my bad -- that always seems to happen when a select LOUD few try to redefine anyone who does not precisely agree with everything that they believe in as an alt-alt-left liberal, as though even that was Ever a denigrated political position.. against, say out-righting extreme-right, which has made for a constant source of comedy.. thanks to those so extremely willing to offer yourselves to the next gen of actual humor, as opposed to recent comedy.. we've missed you and the punch line will be Bannon, well into the next decade. Trust me, it can hurtz - see also 80's comedy based upon Reagan appointees; you won't get the jokes cuz you need to know boring political history, but audience appreciation is uhmm.. universal. Good luck when the tide turns as the electorate is Painfully fickle, oh those boring political-history black&white facts that resist spin, I.e., no it wasn't a 'failure' on H. W.'s part, those pesky fickle electoids just turned that way for Eight Years.. oops.. no it wasn't a 'failure' on Gore's part, those pesky fickle electoids just turned that way for Eight Years.. oops.. enjoy your ride, short or long, it's politics -- let's talk about religious affiliation! That, at least, is definitive! or, perhaps, I could offer you some 'obviously' needed tips on how to raise Your children?)
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Let's be frank. What the Republican Party (dominated by the Tea Party) stands for is not democracy. The full focus of its effort is on the complete control of the state by financially powerful organizations and individuals, but only those representing mercantile (or finance) ownership interests. Its stated goal is to vastly reduce the government's size and regulatory authority. This is fascism. Fascism is a big word with many definitions, but this condition clearly lies within the realm of those definitions. Fascism is not necessarily Nazism but the Republicans have their Nazis as well (Steve Bannon, for one), and the Republicans use xenophobia and other Nazi-like bigotries to hoodwink working class Americans to vote against their better interests.
 
Let's be frank. What the Republican Party (dominated by the Tea Party) stands for is not democracy. The full focus of its effort is on the complete control of the state by financially powerful organizations and individuals, but only those representing mercantile (or finance) ownership interests. Its stated goal is to vastly reduce the government's size and regulatory authority. This is fascism. Fascism is a big word with many definitions, but this condition clearly lies within the realm of those definitions. Fascism is not necessarily Nazism but the Republicans have their Nazis as well (Steve Bannon, for one), and the Republicans use xenophobia and other Nazi-like bigotries to hoodwink working class Americans to vote against their better interests.

^^^An actual Fascist telling you how not-Fascists are really Fascists.
 
Let's be frank. What the Republican Party (dominated by the Tea Party) stands for is not democracy. The full focus of its effort is on the complete control of the state by financially powerful organizations and individuals, but only those representing mercantile (or finance) ownership interests. Its stated goal is to vastly reduce the government's size and regulatory authority. This is fascism. Fascism is a big word with many definitions, but this condition clearly lies within the realm of those definitions. Fascism is not necessarily Nazism but the Republicans have their Nazis as well (Steve Bannon, for one), and the Republicans use xenophobia and other Nazi-like bigotries to hoodwink working class Americans to vote against their better interests.
You hit the nail on the head.
 
The only parts of political and global warming comments in which to believe, in current reports in our society, is the punctuation and increasing illiteracy, although the punctuation is incorrect in many reports.
The only climate problem in California is a lack of water storage look to the LA basin and trans state canal as an example of
poor planning for so . cal at no. cal expense . The Calif liberal body politic is funded by the elite globalists whose platform includes climate fraud .
 
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