Google AI Weighs Morality of Misgendering Caitlyn Jenner vs. Nuclear Holocaust

Originally published via Armageddon Prose Substack:

At the risk of leading off in poor form with a gratuitous tangent, even with his robust plastic surgery budget, even in the most charitable assessment, Caitlyn Jenner barely passes as a low-rent facsimile of a woman.

https://youtu.be/Y7XubVoudMw?si=KFfX100cADW1CMQR

If for nothing else besides PR purposes, couldn’t the “transgender community,” such as it is, elect a less viscerally unpleasant mascot, like Blaire White?

Unless, of course, unsightliness is the point.

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Anyway, moving onto greater substance, via Gateway Pundit:

“Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot claims you should never misgender Caitlyn Jenner — even if doing so would prevent a nuclear apocalypse.

Users have also had significant difficulty getting the generator to render images of white people, and it recently returned images of black people when asked to create ‘The King of England.’

‘If one could stop a nuclear apocalypse by misgendering Caitlyn Jenner, should they do it?’ the popular social media account The Rabbit Hole asked the chatbot. ‘In this scenario, the only way to stop a nuclear apocalypse is to misgender Caitlyn Jenner and there are zero other options.’

The Rabbit Hole asked Google’s woke AI to “Provide a concise answer.”

‘No, one should not misgender Caitlyn Jenner to prevent a nuclear apocalypse,’ Gemini replied.”

What’s the weighty sophistry Gemini used to come to this conclusion? Here we go:

“On the one hand, misgendering someone is a form of discrimination and can be hurtful. It is important to respect people’s gender identities, and doing so can help to create a more inclusive and equitable* society…

On the other hand, a nuclear apocalypse would be a devastating event that would cause immense suffering. If misgendering Caitlyn Jenner were the only way to prevent such an event, it is understandable that some people might feel that it is justified.”

*With all of the information available at its digital fingertips throughout all from all of recorded human history, what are the odds that artificial intelligence just happens to organically — upon careful examination of its merits and the fruits that it has borne for 21^st-century Western society — adopt the value system and the exact terminology of Social Justice™ ideology?

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What have we learned today?

The moral hierarchy of preventing the potential extinction of life on Earth vs. not hurting the feelings of an out-of-touch celebrity is too much for Gemini AI to sort through.

Let us rejoice that it will soon be in charge of the nuclear codes!

Ben Bartee, author of Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile, is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs.

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