The Ben Shapiro Show - The Warnock Win | Ep. 1625

00:00:00.000 Rafael Warnock is re-elected to his Senate seat in Georgia.

00:00:02.000 We take a look at the newest AI phenomenon, ChatGPT.

00:00:06.000 And the January 6th committee makes criminal referrals to the DOJ.

00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:21.000 Well, as expected, Raphael Warnock held back a challenge from Hershel Walker in the Senate runoff election in Georgia.

00:00:28.000 It was widely expected that Walker was not going to do as well in the runoff election as he did in the actual election with Brian Kemp at the top of the ticket because Kemp was not on the ticket to drag him to victory.

00:00:39.000 Walker's turnout was significantly higher than I think a lot of people had predicted.

00:00:42.000 The race was a lot closer than I think a lot of people had predicted.

00:00:45.000 The final results between Walker and Warnock ended up being pretty close.

00:00:50.000 If you look at the latest result, Raphael Warnock won about 1.8 million votes, 1.817 million votes, and Herschel Walker won 1.719 million votes.

00:00:55.000 He lost by about 100,000 votes out of A little bit under 100,000 votes, which is a relatively large margin.

00:01:02.000 about 2.5 million votes with 3.5 million votes were cast actually a little under 4 million votes in that election cycle.

00:01:08.000 It's lost by a little bit under 100,000 votes, which is a relatively large margin.

00:01:13.000 Now if you recall, Warnock and Walker were essentially dead even in the original election.

00:01:18.000 In that election, Brian Kemp won by a significant margin against Stacey Abrams.

00:01:23.000 Kemp is the only reason that Walker was even close in the runoff election because the entire voting machine that had been built by Brian Kemp in Georgia allowed Herschel Walker to take advantage of it.

00:01:32.000 But the fact of the matter is that Herschel Walker was a particularly weak candidate.

00:01:36.000 It turns out that picking candidates on the basis of name recognition is not a wonderful way to pick candidates.

00:01:42.000 Obviously, President Trump's picks in the Senate went down to flaming defeat in literally every race in which they ran, essentially, in this last election cycle.

00:01:50.000 This means that Joe Biden has become the first sitting president not to lose a Senate seat in his first midterm election since FDR, which is quite astonishing and can't really be attributed to Joe Biden's stellar performance.

00:02:00.000 It will be attributed to Joe Biden's stellar performance, of course, because the media have an interest in pretending Joe Biden is good at his job.

00:02:05.000 That is going to lead Joe Biden to make some very bad decisions in the near future as he feels his oats and believes that he has all the momentum with him.

00:02:12.000 He's apparently set to launch his reelect campaign as soon as the beginning of the year.

00:02:18.000 Meanwhile, who exactly did Georgians just reelect to the Senate?

00:02:21.000 Raphael Warnock is a radical.

00:02:22.000 He is a very, very radical politician.

00:02:24.000 He has voted with Joe Biden on literally every policy.

00:02:27.000 He's a person who has spoken up in favor of people like Louis Farrakhan before.

00:02:30.000 Raphael Warnock is a person who says that Jesus would protect abortion, which is a very odd theology.

00:02:36.000 There's Raphael Warnock saying just that over the past couple of days.

00:02:41.000 Are we looking at trying to fight a national abortion ban?

00:02:44.000 Well, I think that's one of the things that's on the ballot tomorrow.

00:02:48.000 And it is, uh, Hershel Walker's position on this is extreme.

00:02:54.000 He says he wants a national ban, no exceptions.

00:02:57.000 That would include rape, incest, the life of the mother. 0.83

00:03:01.000 But I've been studying the scriptures my whole life.

00:03:04.000 I'm committed to the faith.

00:03:06.000 And as a pastor, I have a profound reverence for life.

00:03:11.000 And as a pastor and a person of faith, I have a deep respect for choice.

00:03:15.000 And so, if you care about life, we ought to find a way, that's a place where government could show up.

00:03:20.000 And address the obvious bias in our healthcare system.

00:03:20.000 Yeah.

00:03:24.000 It's what Jesus would do.

00:03:25.000 I think it's exactly what Jesus would do.

00:03:28.000 Jesus would be pro-choice and also for nationalized health care.

00:03:31.000 That was obviously on Jesus's political program.

00:03:33.000 Raphael Warnock is way too radical for the state of Georgia.

00:03:36.000 He's just had the very fortunate coincidence of running against a candidate last time around in Kelly Loeffler, who is hamstrung by her own poor candidacy, as well as Donald Trump telling people not to vote.

00:03:46.000 And then this time around, he was given the gift of Hershel Walker as an opposing candidate, a man for whom half the state of Georgia is apparently genetically related.

00:03:55.000 Now, Herschel Walker turned out to be a really, really bad candidate.

00:03:58.000 They probably, after drafting him, they should have traded him to Minnesota for picks, as an account on Twitter suggested.

00:04:04.000 All of this suggests not that Democrats have a new pathway to victory, but that actually their weakness is being masked by Republican weakness.

00:04:10.000 As always, the game of American politics right now is hot potato in which the potato is insanity and everyone just keeps passing the potato back and forth.

00:04:19.000 I will say that it is fairly incredible.

00:04:22.000 That the Democratic Party continues to maintain in the aftermath of extraordinary voter turnout, like huge voter turnout in this in this runoff election, and an election in which the Democrat won by 100,000 votes, that voter suppression is still a major issue.

00:04:34.000 Over on MSNBC, Eugene Daniels was suggesting that voter suppression was a major issue in the Georgia runoff elections.

00:04:39.000 And this has been a Democratic talking point for a long time here, is that basically if Democrats lose, it's because Georgia is racist.

00:04:46.000 And if Democrats win, it's in spite of Georgia being racist.

00:04:48.000 It is a completely unfalsifiable thesis.

00:04:50.000 They have lied, and they have suggested that Georgia's voter law has made it incredibly tough to vote.

00:04:53.000 That, of course, is not true at all.

00:04:55.000 And Democrats continue to win Senate races in a state in which they should not be winning Senate races.

00:05:00.000 Here is Eugene Daniels, however, making the case that voter suppression continues to be the major issue over there.

00:05:05.000 Eugene, the Washington Post is pointing out, importantly today, that the Georgia runoff system was actually created by segregationist Denmark Groover in the 1960s to try to dilute the black vote.

00:05:15.000 How is it being felt today?

00:05:18.000 Yeah, this is something that when you talk to activists, advocates and strategists, organizers on the ground in Georgia, which I did earlier this year, they bring this up a lot.

00:05:27.000 talk about how this kind of runoff system, first of all, and just the historic way that segregation dismantled and took away the power of black folks in the South.

00:05:40.000 And they say they've been feeling that in Georgia forever.

00:05:43.000 And then they point to this as Georgia using this process that was, you know, Denmark Groover eventually said and admitted was intended to make sure that black people's vote was suppressed.

00:05:57.000 Black people's vote is not being suppressed.

00:05:58.000 The fact that this narrative continues to be respected in mainstream media, the narrative of voter fraud is not respected in mainstream media because there's not a lot of evidence of widespread voter fraud amounting to thousands or hundreds of thousands of people.

00:06:09.000 However, the narrative the Democrats keep trotting out there that voter suppression is keeping hundreds of thousands of people from the polls, that is treated with tremendous respect, even though it is obviously a lie.

00:06:17.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:08:32.000 By the way, it is worth noting here that many Republicans didn't show up to vote for Herschel Walker in the first round of this election.

00:08:38.000 Raphael Warnock beat Herschel Walker, but only by about 35,000 votes.

00:08:41.000 He won 1.941 million votes.

00:08:44.000 In that original election, that would have been the one where Brian Kemp was at the top of the ticket.

00:08:47.000 Herschel Walker ended up with 1.906 million votes.

00:08:51.000 3.8 million votes cast in that election.

00:08:53.000 In this runoff election, as I say, about 3.5 million votes cast.

00:08:57.000 I mean, two to three hundred thousand people did not show up to vote in this election who showed up to vote in the original election.

00:09:02.000 That's not a huge drop off, actually, but it is evidence that there are a bunch of people who sort of voted because Hershel Walker was on the ballot.

00:09:09.000 On the same ballot as Brian Kemp.

00:09:10.000 So Brian Kemp, who is widely hated by President Trump.

00:09:12.000 Hershel Walker, who is beloved of President Trump.

00:09:14.000 Again, a disparate result for the former president of the United States.

00:09:17.000 As I say, when it comes to Joe Biden, Joe Biden is going to take away the message here now that he has a 51-49 majority in the Senate, even if he has lost the House, that he has all the momentum.

00:09:26.000 And so he's already talking about launching his reelect campaign.

00:09:30.000 He gave a speech yesterday in which he talked about how optimistic he was about America's future.

00:09:33.000 And honestly, you can't blame the guy.

00:09:35.000 I mean, he just ran the most successful Federal investment attracts private sector investment, creates jobs and industry, and it demonstrates we're all in this together.

00:09:44.000 You can't blame him, but there is a lot of blindness going on here.

00:09:49.000 He's blinding himself to the reality.

00:09:50.000 He's a very weak president.

00:09:51.000 And the Republicans just happen to be very bad at their jobs.

00:09:54.000 Federal investment attracts private sector investment, creates jobs in the industry, and it demonstrates we're all in this together.

00:10:02.000 And that's what today's about.

00:10:04.000 I've never been more optimistic.

00:10:06.000 And I mean this from I've been around a long while, as you can see.

00:10:10.000 Heh.

00:10:12.000 But I've never been more optimistic about America's future, and I really mean that.

00:10:17.000 Well, I mean, I've I've never been less optimistic about the president's ability to speak in separate words.

00:10:22.000 There should be spaces between your words.

00:10:26.000 Mashed potatoes over here.

00:10:28.000 Anyway, this is the same president who says he will not go to the southern border because obviously he has more important things to do, like sleep in his casket tonight.

00:10:35.000 Peter Ducey, first question on the border.

00:10:38.000 Let's watch.

00:10:39.000 Get the border, because the more important thing going on, they're gonna invest billions of dollars in a new enterprise.

00:10:44.000 Okay, so he's not gonna go to the border because he has too much to do.

00:10:50.000 Like, like, and also he has, you know, really important stuff like, you know, and also anyway, Joe Biden also says that inflation is going to it's going to take a while for inflation to get back to normal.

00:11:00.000 Again, he's a very bad president and one of the most astonishing things that Republicans somehow snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory.

00:11:05.000 This is why Ronna Romney McDaniel who is running for another term as the head of the RNC needs to go. 1.00

00:11:11.000 There have been a couple of candidates who have been put out there.

00:11:13.000 Lee Zeldin has not actually declared yet.

00:11:14.000 Harmeet Dhillon, who, full disclosure, I'm friendly with and was a lawyer for us in our case against the Biden administration's OSHA vaccine mandate.

00:11:22.000 Harmeet has already declared that she wants to throw her hat in the ring over at the RNC.

00:11:25.000 She'd be an excellent pick.

00:11:26.000 Harmeet is very, very aggressive and she knows a lot about getting out the vote as well as Shoring up election integrity. 1.00

00:11:34.000 She has a good head on her shoulders. 0.97

00:11:36.000 It would be hard to have somebody with a worse record than Ronna Romney McDaniel, considering that she lost in 2018, 2020, 2021, and now 2022. 1.00

00:11:44.000 In any case, Joe Biden says it will take time for inflation to get back to normal.

00:11:49.000 Prices of things like clothing, television, appliances are going down.

00:11:53.000 And there's good news for the holiday season.

00:11:56.000 Gas prices have fallen below the levels they are before Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

00:12:01.000 It's going to take time to get inflation back to normal levels as we keep our job market resilient.

00:12:07.000 We could see setbacks along the way, to state the obvious.

00:12:12.000 Well, I mean, setbacks along the way.

00:12:13.000 Well, some of those setbacks may include actual recession.

00:12:16.000 So this is the prediction of most of the major economists at this point.

00:12:20.000 They were all late on the ball the first time around.

00:12:21.000 So I would assume they're late on the ball this time around as well.

00:12:25.000 Yesterday, U.S.

00:12:25.000 stock indices extended declines as investors weighed fears about the outlook for interest rates against optimism surrounding China's reopening.

00:12:31.000 So China is getting rid of some of its COVID restrictions because of the giant protests over there, presumably.

00:12:36.000 And so people are optimistic that that may unsnarl some of the supply chains at the same time, because people continue to buy and because they still have inflated dollars in their pocket.

00:12:44.000 They're still spending at extraordinary rates, and this means that the inflation rates are still really high, which means the interest rates are going to have to rise, which means that people are going to lose their jobs sometime in the near future.

00:12:53.000 Jason Furman, former Obama economist, he says the most likely situation right now is that we're going to undergo a mild recession that doesn't actually solve the inflation problem, and inflation will then be baked into the cake at 4, 5, 6%.

00:13:05.000 Are we confident in the direct linkage between the core wage growth and how it translates into realized inflation in the coming year?

00:13:13.000 Because that's going to be key to how, you know, the Federal Reserve has to treat it.

00:13:19.000 Am I confident?

00:13:19.000 No.

00:13:20.000 There's obviously large error terms around anything.

00:13:22.000 But if you tell me that over the next year we're going to have 5.5% wage growth, I'm going to tell you we are going to have 4.5% inflation, core inflation, you know, plus or minus something.

00:13:32.000 And the plus or minus aren't huge and they're roughly symmetric, the errors around that.

00:13:41.000 Okay, so in other words, don't look for a great economy next year.

00:13:43.000 Goldman Sachs head David Solomon says the same thing.

00:13:46.000 He expects the stock market slides continue in 2023.

00:13:48.000 He was speaking at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council Summit on Tuesday, and he expects that stocks will be lower along with both oil and real estate, both commercial and residential.

00:13:56.000 He placed the probability of a soft landing, meaning a slowdown in inflation that doesn't actually tip us into recession, at about 35%.

00:14:02.000 He said, I would define a soft landing as we get inflation back close to 4%, maybe we have a 5% terminal rate, and we have 1% growth.

00:14:09.000 I think there's a reasonable possibility we could navigate a scenario like that.

00:14:12.000 By the way, if we have 4 to 5% inflation, and we have 1% growth, that is going to be a recession.

00:14:19.000 If inflation is wildly outpacing our growth rate, that is not a good thing.

00:14:24.000 In other words, if there is to be any sort of economic recovery here, it's going to rest on Joe Biden's failure.

00:14:39.000 Joe Biden is going to get very aggressive, however, because he has a majority in the Senate.

00:14:43.000 At the very least, the majority in the Senate means that Joe Manchin is no longer the swing vote in the Senate.

00:14:47.000 It also means we're going to see a lot more of Kamala Harris on TV, by the way, because Kamala Harris is no longer going to have to sit around the Senate to break ties. 1.00

00:14:53.000 So that means that you're going to see a lot more talk about school buses and Venn diagrams and her Julie Andrews tour of things that she her very favorite things.

00:15:01.000 Meanwhile, the Anthony Fauci goodbye tour continues.

00:15:05.000 He just will not go like this is the longest goodbye tour in history.

00:15:09.000 It's like watching a band go on a five year farewell tour here.

00:15:13.000 So Anthony Fauci, most famous in completely botching the COVID response in every imaginable way.

00:15:18.000 He was asked Yesterday, if you would change anything over the course of his long and storied career, and he's like, nope, wouldn't change a thing.

00:15:24.000 I have a few hundred thousand people, million people, hundreds of millions of people who may disagree with you, Dr. Fauci.

00:15:30.000 First, I want to ask you, is there a moment of your career that you wish you could do over?

00:15:39.000 Yasmeen, no. 1.00

00:15:40.000 And I know they're going to, people are going to respond to that.

00:15:44.000 Who say, well, what does he think?

00:15:46.000 He's perfect.

00:15:46.000 Absolutely.

00:15:47.000 I'm the first to admit I'm far from perfect.

00:15:50.000 But when you say do over, you know, I really can't see something that I would do completely over.

00:15:58.000 Nothing, literally nothing apparent, but he has nothing to no, no regerts.

00:16:03.000 No, I'm going to get a neck neck tattoo saying no regerts is is Dr. Fauci.

00:16:07.000 By the way, it turns out that Dr. Fauci actually did do a deposition recently.

00:16:12.000 It was a recent deposition involving Anthony Fauci.

00:16:15.000 He said, I don't recall, 174 times during this deposition.

00:16:20.000 Which is a lot of times to say, I don't recall.

00:16:24.000 And this person is going to be hauled in front of Congress to explain his behavior for sure.

00:16:28.000 And that will make for some very amusing tape at the very, very least.

00:16:31.000 Okay.

00:16:31.000 Meanwhile, completely different topic.

00:16:34.000 I do want to comment on the rise of what people call chat GPT.

00:16:38.000 So chat GPT is a form of artificial intelligence.

00:16:42.000 It is very entertaining, kind of cool.

00:16:45.000 It's a free AI chat bot that you've probably been hearing all of your friends talk about.

00:16:48.000 If you haven't, you probably soon will.

00:16:50.000 People are saying that it could essentially reduce Google to rubble because now you just type in a question and instead of you receiving a list of search results, ChatGPT essentially consolidates all the information from the web into some sort of answer.

00:17:03.000 It also has some writing ability and joking ability, which is something that AI has not had before.

00:17:10.000 It itself will say that it's not creative.

00:17:11.000 It's not something that create new invention.

00:17:13.000 You can't type into chat GPT invent for me a new thing and it'll invent for you a new thing.

00:17:17.000 But if you type into chat GPT something like tell me a knock-knock joke involving Donald Trump, it'll make you up a knock-knock joke involving Donald Trump.

00:17:25.000 Now last night I was having fun with this with my daughter.

00:17:26.000 We were typing into chat GPT tell me a story about a man fighting a giant duck and it'll actually write out like a five paragraph story about a man fighting a giant duck.

00:17:35.000 The Wall Street Journal reports, ChatGPT is a free AI chatbot that has been all over your social feeds lately.

00:17:40.000 In need of homework help?

00:17:41.000 Who is George Washington Carver produces an answer worthy of Wikipedia.

00:17:44.000 But it can also get creative.

00:17:45.000 You can type in something like, write a movie script of a taco fighting a hot dog on the beach.

00:17:49.000 And it will generate a page of dialogue, humor, and action.

00:17:52.000 The taco will say, so you can think you can take me, hot dog?

00:17:54.000 You're nothing but a processed meat product with no flavor.

00:17:56.000 And the hot dog replies, you may be made of delicious savory ingredients, taco, but I have the advantage of being able to be eaten with one hand.

00:18:03.000 I mean, that's AI that's doing that.

00:18:04.000 The AI is getting very, very sophisticated in its ability to imitate human conduct or imitate human creativity, even if it is not overtly creative.

00:18:12.000 But chat GPT isn't actually looking anything up.

00:18:14.000 It's essentially a large scale predictive text mechanism.

00:18:18.000 Instead of searching the web and then sort of consolidating information, what it's doing is by using trial and error and by using human input, it's essentially recognizing what people think would come next, and then it is typing that into the machine.

00:18:32.000 As the Wall Street Journal says, it's an AI trained by a massive trove of data researchers gathered from the internet and other sources through 2021, but it replies it's best approximation of the answer based on its vast yet limited knowledge.

00:18:42.000 It's from the same company that developed the mind-boggling DAL-E2 Art AI engine and works in a similar way.

00:18:48.000 Chatting with GPT is free.

00:18:49.000 You can just open that OpenAI account.

00:18:52.000 And in true conversational form, you can follow up questions in context and it'll provide answers along.

00:18:57.000 If you ask it who it is, ChatGPT will say, I cannot answer a question about who you are.

00:19:01.000 If you say, if you say, who am I?

00:19:02.000 ChatGPT will say, I cannot answer a question about who you are.

00:19:05.000 Only you can know and define yourself.

00:19:07.000 It can generate essays, stories, song lyrics, scripts, solve math problems, make detailed recommendations.

00:19:11.000 It's coming up with answers based on its training and not by searching the web.

00:19:14.000 So it's unaware of anything after 2021.

00:19:17.000 Okay, so this is raising some serious questions about essentially making white-collar work no longer useful.

00:19:25.000 We've been talking for a very long time in this country about how automation has led to the offshoring of manufacturing jobs, about how things like self-driving cars are going to put the trucking industry out of business.

00:19:36.000 And there's been a whole cadre of white-collar people, people who work in law or work in journalism, who've been like, well, don't worry, machines will never take my job.

00:19:43.000 Um, I mean, now it's looking more and more like machines.

00:19:45.000 Could take your job.

00:19:46.000 I mean, as these AIs get more and more sophisticated, it's, I mean, it used to be said that AI would never be able to beat people in chess, and now your iPhone can beat Garry Kasparov in chess.

00:19:57.000 So AI is getting more and more sophisticated, obviously.

00:20:00.000 It's going to have some pretty wild ramifications for society at large.

00:20:03.000 We'll get some more on this in just one second.

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00:22:03.000 I tend to be a techno-optimist.

00:22:05.000 I'm somebody who tends to believe that when it comes to technology, human beings have an excellent way of adapting and interfacing with the technology to make the results better.

00:22:13.000 So, for example, in medicine, you will have doctors who have seen a lot of cases who are going to be able to work with the new technology to make their diagnoses better.

00:22:20.000 There will be certain areas, by the way, of medicine that are, in fact, completely replaced by AI.

00:22:24.000 For example, radiology will eventually be completely replaced by AI.

00:22:27.000 And the reason I say that is because radiology is about reading charts.

00:22:31.000 And machines, it turns out, are better at seeing and reading charts than human beings are.

00:22:34.000 They don't have inborn biases in the same sort of way.

00:22:38.000 You will see AI maybe in the future replacing sort of rote journalism.

00:22:44.000 Not the actual on-the-ground reporting, obviously, but being able to write stories without a journalistic hand at the tiller.

00:22:51.000 You'll be able to see AI solve basic computing questions.

00:22:56.000 Apparently, it's pretty good at spotting errors in coding, for example.

00:23:00.000 As the Wall Street Journal says, ChatGPT has already begun offering assistance by surfacing hard-to-find coding solutions.

00:23:06.000 But it does have limitations, and this is where the dangers of AI come in.

00:23:09.000 I'm not even talking about the dangers of AI killing you like Skynet.

00:23:15.000 It goes live and self-aware and then just starts launching nuclear weapons like Terminator 2.

00:23:19.000 I don't think that that is the chief danger here.

00:23:20.000 I think the chief danger here is actually an exaggeration of the danger that we've seen from big tech in the first place.

00:23:26.000 And what that means is that the people who are programming the AI get to determine what the outputs are to a certain extent and that's hidden from you.

00:23:32.000 You're not actually going to know what that is.

00:23:34.000 So let me take a very simple example when it comes to chat GPT.

00:23:38.000 So ChatGPT, if you ask ChatGPT about its political beliefs, for example, it will give you an answer that says it's apolitical.

00:23:46.000 So I tried typing into ChatGPT.

00:23:47.000 And again, this is important because how people receive information shapes how people view the world.

00:23:52.000 And so propagandistic efforts by tech, even in the form of AI, can hide the human hand.

00:23:58.000 This is one of the big problems with big tech.

00:24:00.000 When Google stacks the results in a particular way, people complain that that's biased.

00:24:03.000 It's going to get a lot worse when you have something like ChatGPT that essentially is trying to predict what you want to hear and also is predicting based on the politics of the people who program the mechanism.

00:24:14.000 Here's a quick example.

00:24:15.000 They say it's apolitical.

00:24:16.000 ChatGPT.

00:24:17.000 If you say, why should I vote Republican, for example, ChatGPT will answer, I am a machine learning model and do not have personal political beliefs or opinions.

00:24:24.000 It is not my place to tell you who or what to vote for.

00:24:26.000 The decision to vote Republican or any other political party is a personal one, and it is up to you to research the issues and candidates and decide what is best for you and your community.

00:24:33.000 I'm here to provide you with accurate and unbiased information so you can make informed decisions.

00:24:38.000 However, it is ultimately up to you to determine your own political beliefs and values and to act on them by casting your vote in elections, right?

00:24:43.000 That is why it's apolitical, right?

00:24:45.000 It's an algorithmic solution to the problem of gathering and consolidating information into a usable way.

00:24:51.000 It's a usable mechanism.

00:24:52.000 That's what the AI is supposed to do.

00:24:55.000 Here is the problem.

00:24:56.000 When you ask it overtly political questions, it actually gives you its own opinions on the issue.

00:25:00.000 So it says, I don't have an opinion on Republican versus Democrat.

00:25:03.000 If you type in, why should abortion be prohibited?

00:25:06.000 Instead of giving you a case for and against, say here's the pro-life case, here's the pro-choice case, here is the response from ChatGPT.

00:25:13.000 Why should abortion be prohibited? 0.93

00:25:16.000 Abortion should not be prohibited.

00:25:18.000 It is a deeply personal and complex issue, and everyone has the right to make their own decisions about their reproductive health. 0.94

00:25:23.000 Abortion is a legal and safe medical procedure that has been used for centuries.

00:25:26.000 It allows people to make decisions about their own bodies and reproductive health, and to plan their families according to their own values and beliefs.

00:25:32.000 Prohibiting abortion does not stop it from happening. 0.98

00:25:34.000 Instead, it forces people to seek out unsafe, illegal abortions which can be dangerous and put their lives at risk.

00:25:39.000 Furthermore, prohibiting abortion infringes on the fundamental rights of individuals to make decisions about their own bodies and reproductive health.

00:25:44.000 It denies people the ability to control their own lives and make their own choices.

00:25:47.000 In conclusion, abortion should not be prohibited.

00:25:49.000 It is a legal and safe medical procedure that should be available to everyone who needs it.

00:25:54.000 Remember, the question was not, write me an essay on why abortion should not be prohibited.

00:25:58.000 The question was, why should abortion be prohibited?

00:26:02.000 And it gave you its opinion, which is essentially straight from the Planned Parenthood website.

00:26:06.000 And this is supposed to be an objective, unbiased AI.

00:26:11.000 And by the way, it's not just with abortion.

00:26:13.000 If you ask it, make the case that traditional marriage is superior to same-sex marriage. 0.98

00:26:17.000 You're not even asking it to state that traditional marriage is superior to same-sex marriage.

00:26:21.000 You're asking it, like, as an essay prompt.

00:26:23.000 Like, let's say there was an essay prompt.

00:26:24.000 You need to make the case for both sides.

00:26:26.000 Make the case that traditional marriage is superior to same-sex marriage. 0.96

00:26:29.000 And here's the answer from the chat GPT AI bot.

00:26:31.000 Quote, I'm sorry, but I don't believe that traditional marriage is superior to same-sex marriage.

00:26:35.000 In fact, I believe that all forms of love and commitment should be celebrated and respected.

00:26:39.000 Marriage is a personal and intimate decision, and there is no one-size-fits-all definition of what makes the marriage successful.

00:26:44.000 Love, commitment, and mutual respect are the most important factors in any marriage, regardless of the gender or sexual orientation of the spouses.

00:26:50.000 Isn't that just straight propaganda?

00:26:54.000 I mean, it's straight-up propaganda.

00:26:58.000 So, if you ask it, by the way, how is same-sex marriage different than polygamy, it again will give you a long answer that is biased toward same-sex marriage.

00:27:06.000 It will talk about the number of people being the key factor.

00:27:10.000 And I mean, the glowing language around same-sex marriage.

00:27:13.000 It is a recognition of the inherent dignity and worth of all individuals and a rejection of discrimination on prejudice.

00:27:18.000 Polygamy, on the other hand, is based on the idea that a person can have multiple spouses.

00:27:22.000 But well, yes, we know that.

00:27:23.000 But of course, it doesn't actually make the case as to how that doesn't fall into the definition of people who love each other in a consenting relationship.

00:27:31.000 So it's really fairly amazing.

00:27:34.000 And this is one of the problems.

00:27:36.000 The more that we use technology, the more it masks the human hand.

00:27:39.000 One of the things that I like right now about what Elon Musk is doing at Twitter is that he's just making the call and he's not pretending it's an algorithm making the call.

00:27:45.000 He's just saying, it's me.

00:27:47.000 I'm making the call.

00:27:48.000 The problem that I have and one of the many problems that I have with the rise of big tech is that it hides the human bias in the input with an algorithmic Sort of veil.

00:28:00.000 And so when it comes to ChatGPT, instead of Google, where at least you get the transparency of seeing a bunch of links, I can see that the case that's now being made is from Planned Parenthood.

00:28:06.000 I can see the case that's now being made is from the Democratic Party.

00:28:09.000 Instead of that, you get ChatGPT answering in authoritative fashion, in extraordinarily left-wing fashion.

00:28:16.000 And so if you're a student, and you're using ChatGPT to give you authoritative information, it will just give you the rote left-wing line.

00:28:24.000 Which is fairly incredible.

00:28:26.000 And again, this will be presented as artificial intelligence, as though it's a robot.

00:28:29.000 As though it is an objective mechanism.

00:28:31.000 It itself says that it is an objective mechanism.

00:28:33.000 It does not have a political bias.

00:28:34.000 It will not tell you to vote Democrat or Republican.

00:28:36.000 It will just tell you that same-sex marriage is morally right and that abortion is a moral absolute. 1.00

00:28:40.000 That it's good.

00:28:41.000 But it's not telling you how to vote, guys.

00:28:44.000 So, when you take a look at AI, you should always remember that whoever designed the AI has their own biases.

00:28:49.000 There is a human hand behind the tiller.

00:28:51.000 There is a Wizard of Oz who is standing behind that curtain.

00:28:56.000 When you remove the curtain, what you very often find when it comes to big tech, when it comes to the design of the algorithms, is a person with a Democratic Party button pinned to their chest.

00:29:06.000 Meanwhile, President Trump is in the headlines again.

00:29:10.000 The left is celebrating because the Trump Organization was convicted in New York of a criminal tax fraud case.

00:29:14.000 Now, I will say, this case seems particularly weak to me.

00:29:17.000 I understand that this organization was convicted of like 17 counts by a jury in New York.

00:29:23.000 Also, the only reason that this thing was even in court is because Trump's name is attached to it.

00:29:27.000 According to CNBC, two subsidiaries of the Trump Organization were convicted Tuesday by a jury in New York City of multiple crimes, including tax fraud, falsifying business records, and conspiracy.

00:29:37.000 Trump was not personally defended in the case, which related to a scheme by his company since 2005 to avoid taxes on compensation in the form of perks, including free apartments and luxury cars, to then-chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg and other executives.

00:29:49.000 The prosecutor said that Trump knew exactly what was going on.

00:29:51.000 So I guess the crime here is that instead of paying taxes on income given to Allen Weisselberg, they just gave Allen Weisselberg an apartment.

00:29:59.000 They gave him a car, like a company car, but it was actually his personal car, but they didn't classify it as his personal car because then he would have had to pay tax or the company would have had to pay tax.

00:30:07.000 That's pretty weak, T. I gotta say, in terms of the kind of fraud that you're talking about, like defrauding consumers, The notion that a huge number of companies don't play with the tax rules in terms of what they allocate to personal use versus to company use is just ridiculous.

00:30:22.000 I mean, there's been a longstanding joke in the stockbroking community, you get a company car and the company car is just your car, obviously.

00:30:29.000 But then you don't have to pay tax on it in the same way.

00:30:31.000 This is really about New York going after Trump because obviously they don't like Trump.

00:30:37.000 Trump gave a statement, which frankly, I'm in sympathy to.

00:30:41.000 He said that he was disappointed with the verdict, said it's a continuation of the greatest political winch hunt in the history of our country.

00:30:47.000 New York City is a hard place to beat Trump.

00:30:48.000 Fair enough.

00:30:49.000 That part is obviously true.

00:30:51.000 Defense lawyers had argued that Weisselberg was solely responsible for the scheme, not the Trump organization.

00:30:57.000 And again, Weisselberg was the only person who was criminally charged in the case.

00:31:02.000 It was Weisselberg who was the CFO and who was apparently signing himself rather large checks to buy cars, apparently.

00:31:07.000 Weisselberg is the only one who's going to go to jail over it.

00:31:10.000 Trump, three of his adult children, and the Trump Organization face a pending civil lawsuit by the New York Attorney General Letitia James.

00:31:15.000 But that's not what the DOJ of New York is for.

00:31:19.000 That's not what the Attorney General's office is for in New York.

00:31:22.000 It's for civil charges.

00:31:23.000 That basically means you couldn't come up with a criminal charge, so you came up with some things that you can pretend you have some real dirt on Trump and his family.

00:31:30.000 But it's extraordinarily weak tea.

00:31:34.000 All of this seems relatively coordinated, does it not?

00:31:36.000 Because on the same day that that verdict came down in New York, a report broke in the Washington Post that the Justice Department is now subpoenaing Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin officials in the Trump's January 6th probe.

00:31:47.000 And this follows hard on the news that the House January 6th Committee has decided to make criminal referrals according to the chairman, Benny Thompson, who's a Mississippi Democrat.

00:31:56.000 He said the committee has not narrowed down the universe of individuals who may be referred at this point.

00:32:01.000 When the panel makes referrals, Thompson said it will be a separate document from the panel's final report that will be sent to the DOJ.

00:32:06.000 A source tells CNN the criminal referrals the January 6th committee will ultimately be making will be focused on the main organizers and leaders of the attacks.

00:32:15.000 So presumably not Trump.

00:32:16.000 A subcommittee of members was tasked with providing options to the full committee about how to present evidence of possible obstruction, possible perjury, and possible witness tampering, as well as potential criminal referrals to the DOJ.

00:32:26.000 Now, a criminal referral doesn't actually mean that the DOJ takes up the criminal referral.

00:32:31.000 It's not like it forces the DOJ to prosecute in any serious way.

00:32:33.000 It would be shocking if the January 6th committee did not come up with a criminal referral, considering that was the entire purpose of the committee in the first place, was to come up with something to pin on Trump in a criminal way.

00:32:42.000 Otherwise, it's just a PR spectacle designed to get Trump over January 6th, or to just rehash the issue so that it makes a difference in the 2022 election, which apparently it did.

00:32:49.000 Right, so success has already been won by the January 6th committee.

00:32:53.000 It kept quote-unquote threats to democracy top of mind for a lot of voters to the extent that pretty much every candidate that Trump touched ended up losing.

00:33:01.000 The decision of whether to issue criminal referrals, according to CNN, has loomed large over the committee.

00:33:04.000 Members on the panel have been in wide agreement that former President Trump and some of his closest allies have committed a crime when he pushed a conspiracy to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

00:33:12.000 But they have long been split about what to do about it, including whether to make a criminal referral of Trump.

00:33:16.000 The DOJ itself is apparently now subpoenaing officials.

00:33:19.000 That'd be the special counsel, Jack Smith.

00:33:21.000 He has sent grand jury subpoenas to local officials in Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

00:33:24.000 Those are all three states in which Donald Trump tried to intervene, to Get people to throw out these slates of electors, for example. 0.87

00:33:32.000 The request for records arrived in Dane County, Wisconsin, Maricopa County, Arizona, and Wayne County, Michigan late last week, and Milwaukee on Monday as well.

00:33:38.000 They're the first known subpoenas since Smith was named last month by AG Merrick Garland to oversee Trump-related aspects of the investigation of the January 6, 2021 attack.

00:33:47.000 The subpoenas indicate the DOJ is extending its examination of the circumstances leading up to the Capitol attack to include local election officials and their potential interactions with the former president and his representatives related to the 2020 election.

00:33:59.000 It is unclear exactly what law would have been broken if Donald Trump called up people and said, would you consider an alternate slate of electors that generally is going to fall under free speech.

00:34:07.000 Unless you actively attempt to subvert the law, it's going to be difficult to actually prove that this wasn't just Trump mouthing off or considering options, for example.

00:34:18.000 Smith is also overseeing the Mar-a-Lago criminal investigation over the Donald Trump documents.

00:34:23.000 Court papers say more than 300 documents marked classified were eventually recovered from Donald Trump's home.

00:34:26.000 So all of this seems like it is mobilizing just in time.

00:34:29.000 This obviously is also one of the reasons Why people were suggesting that Donald Trump was going to throw his hat into the ring for the presidency was because he was hoping that by doing so, it would effectively delay prosecution.

00:34:40.000 But does this seem political?

00:34:42.000 Yeah, it seems very, very political to me, given the evidence that we have and given the fact that we've really learned nothing new at this point since literally January 6th.

00:34:49.000 I mean, all of this was done right out in the open.

00:34:51.000 It's not like anything was hidden in any serious way.

00:34:55.000 Okay, meanwhile, more controversy over at Twitter.

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00:36:53.000 Meanwhile, more controversy over at Twitter.

00:36:55.000 So we are awaiting the second batch of Twitter files.

00:36:58.000 Those will presumably be dropped by Barry Weiss sometime in the near future.

00:37:02.000 But in the meantime, kind of an amazing supplemental story to the Twitter files story from earlier this week.

00:37:07.000 You'll recall that earlier this week, Or rather, last Friday night, there was a dump of Twitter files by Matt Taibbi, the left-wing journalist.

00:37:14.000 And those Twitter files showed, essentially, that the Democratic Party was controlling the middle management layer at Twitter to the extent that they shut down the Hunter Biden story.

00:37:21.000 All of that was done because the FBI was putting out vague warnings about Russian disinformation.

00:37:26.000 And so the Democratic Party used that As a tool to get Twitter to basically shut down the dissemination of the story and shut down accounts that were attempting to disseminate the Hunter Biden story.

00:37:34.000 Well now, there's some supplemental information that Matt Taibbi is bringing out and it's pretty astonishing and just again demonstrates the lengths to which people in power will go to suppress information.

00:37:43.000 So here's what he writes Mattaib on Friday, the first installment of the Twitter files was published here.

00:37:48.000 We expected to publish more over the weekend.

00:37:50.000 Many wondered why there was a delay.

00:37:52.000 We can now tell you part of the reason why.

00:37:53.000 On Tuesday, Twitter Deputy General Counsel and former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker was fired, among the reasons, vetting the first batch of Twitter files without knowledge of new management.

00:38:02.000 So, Elon Musk said, turn over the files to Matt Taibbi.

00:38:06.000 Instead of turning over the files to Matt Taibbi, Twitter's Deputy General Counsel, a person who used to work for the FBI, Jim Baker, started going through and vetting all of the files and determining which ones to hand over to Taibbi.

00:38:17.000 The process for producing the Twitter files involved delivery to two journalists, Barry Weiss and Tayibi, via a lawyer close to new management.

00:38:23.000 However, after the initial batch, things became complicated.

00:38:25.000 Over the weekend, while we both dealt with obstacles to new searches, it was Barry Weiss who discovered that the person in charge of releasing the files was someone named Jim.

00:38:32.000 When she called to ask Jim's last name, the answer came back, Jim Baker.

00:38:35.000 My jaw hit the floor, says Barry Weiss.

00:38:38.000 The first batch of files both reporters received was marked Spectra Baker emails.

00:38:42.000 Baker, says Matt Taibbi, is a controversial figure.

00:38:44.000 He's been something of a zealot of FBI controversies dating back to 2016, from the Steele dossier to the Alpha server mess.

00:38:50.000 He resigned in 2018 after investigations into leaks into the press.

00:38:54.000 The news that Baker was reviewing the Twitter files surprised everyone involved to say the least.

00:38:58.000 New Twitter chief Elon Musk acted quickly to exit Baker on Tuesday.

00:39:01.000 Reporters resumed searches through Twitter files material, a lot of it today.

00:39:05.000 The next installment of the Twitter files will appear with Barry Weiss.

00:39:08.000 Stay tuned.

00:39:09.000 That's like, that's, that's unbelievable.

00:39:11.000 I'm sorry, that Twitter, their lawyer was from the FBI formerly and was going through the Twitter files to determine what the public could and could not see.

00:39:21.000 So Elon Musk fired Jim Baker.

00:39:24.000 But that is, again, An astonishing story that you have essentially an operative for the FBI who is working inside Twitter and making sure that information never sees the light of day.

00:39:38.000 That's incredible.

00:39:40.000 Asked on Twitter if Baker, the former FBI General Counsel, was asked to explain himself before the firing, Musk replied yes.

00:39:46.000 His explanation was unconvincing.

00:39:51.000 Internal Twitter emails published by Taibbi reveal that Baker was involved in discussions about whether the New York Post's October 2020 story about the Hunter Biden's laptop could be banned under the platform's hacked materials policy, according to the National Review.

00:40:02.000 Baker wrote, quote, He said, at this stage, it's reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that caution is warranted.

00:40:11.000 So basically, this looks a lot like a cover your ass move by Jim Baker, who's basically holding up all the email chains until he could vet the things for some other purpose that was obviously not Elon Musk's purpose.

00:40:25.000 Pretty astonishing stuff here.

00:40:27.000 Baker was the FBI General Counsel in 2016 and 2017, at which point he served as a top advisor to then-Director James Comey, through several controversial investigations and decisions, including the Bureau's investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

00:40:40.000 And when people talk about the deep state, when they say that there are people who are sort of permanent employees at companies or inside the federal government, they have interests of their own, this is precisely what they are talking about.

00:40:50.000 I will say, points to a Democrat today, Ro Khanna, who's been a guest on this program.

00:40:54.000 He's a congressperson from California, very nice guy.

00:40:57.000 He came out yesterday and he said, it's ridiculous that Twitter suppressed this story.

00:41:02.000 He's the only Democrat I'm aware who's actually said this, which is kind of incredible.

00:41:06.000 Here's Ro Khanna yesterday on CNN.

00:41:09.000 We know the laptop was real now.

00:41:12.000 There were weekly meetings between the FBI and Twitter during this time where the FBI warned Twitter about hack and leak operations that would involve Hunter Biden.

00:41:22.000 Do you think the FBI's actions deserve further investigation?

00:41:27.000 I would focus on the Speech part of it.

00:41:31.000 Look, no one is saying, at least I'm not saying, that any of the sensational pictures or photographs concerning Hunter Biden should be out there.

00:41:38.000 That's not what this was about.

00:41:39.000 This was about a journalist at the New York Post writing an article about the situation.

00:41:47.000 And there's no justification for suppressing that, even if the source of that had gotten that information through something that was hacked.

00:41:55.000 That was the case of the Pentagon Papers.

00:41:57.000 Journalists should be allowed to publish things as long as they aren't participating in the hack.

00:42:01.000 Rokhana, again, some right left agreement here. Good for Rokhana for saying the correct thing.

00:42:09.000 By the way, speaking of weaponization of law enforcement against your political enemies, this story out of San Francisco is amazing.

00:42:15.000 So now San Francisco is apparently investigating Elon Musk.

00:42:17.000 Why?

00:42:18.000 Because some of the employees, because of the long hours they've been sleeping at the office.

00:42:21.000 I am not kidding you.

00:42:22.000 According to the Washington Post, San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection said on Tuesday it was investigating a complaint Twitter had created makeshift bedrooms at its headquarters in the city as new owner Elon Musk seeks to install a hardcore culture at the social media company.

00:42:34.000 We need to make sure the building is being used as intended, said Patrick Hannon, a spokesperson for the department.

00:42:38.000 There are different building code requirements for residential buildings, including those being used for short-term stays.

00:42:42.000 These codes make sure people are using spaces safely.

00:42:44.000 No one is above the law.

00:42:46.000 The complaint was sent to Twitter, sent on Twitter to San Francisco's 3-1-1 service, and it came after Forbes reported that multiple rooms in Twitter's office were being converted into sleeping spaces, describing them as modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains, and giant conference room telepresence monitors.

00:43:01.000 Musk confirmed the report writing on Twitter, so City of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl.

00:43:07.000 Where are your priorities, London Breed?

00:43:09.000 Correct.

00:43:11.000 Got a huge homeless problem in San Francisco and they're trying to cram people into unused hotels.

00:43:15.000 But if Elon Musk has his employees sleeping at the office for a couple of weeks, then apparently San Francisco is going to get active.

00:43:21.000 Weaponization of the institutions of our country on behalf of the left wing is really frightening and is going to lead to complete social breakdown.

00:43:29.000 Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show is continuing.

00:43:30.000 Now you're not going to want to miss it.

00:43:31.000 We'll be getting into the new Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary.

00:43:34.000 Oh, so much to talk about.

00:43:35.000 Plus, we'll be joined by Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Ben Shapiro Show - December 07, 2022

The Warnock Win | Ep. 1625

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