[Copy] Fox News accused Ilhan Omar of a “profanity-laced attack on Trump”—the only profanity being his own words.

I'm losing track of how many times I've said, "You can't make this stuff up," but here's one more to add to the list.

Fox News published an article earlier this week with the headline "Watch: Ilhan Omar delivers heated, profanity-laced attack on President Trump."


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The problem? The only profanity in the entire "attack" was the president's own freaking words, quoted from his own freaking mouth and tweets.

Someone must have pointed out the obvious, because Fox News has quietly updated the headline, which now reads "Watch: Ilhan Omar uses president's words to deliver heated, profanity-laced attack on Trump." But it's not like adding "uses president's words" in that spot clarifies that the only profanit were president's own words.

(BTW, you can still find the previous headline cached in a Google search—see screenshots below—or on Way Back Time Machine. See how everything lives on the Internet, kids?)

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Want to know what an actual profanity-laced attack on the president would look like? This: "President Trump is an a**shole who knows precisely jack sh*t about government and wouldn't know human decency if it hit him in the f**king face." If someone said something like that, a news outlet could justifiably call it a "profanity-laced attack."

But nothing even close to that happened. In a response to Trump's attacks against her and her colleagues, Omar didn't use a single swear word that was not a direct quote from the president. Here's the "profanity-laden" part of what she said:

"This is a president who has said 'grab women by the p——. This is a president who has called black athletes 'sons of b----es.' This is a president who has called people who come from black and brown countries 'sh--holes.' This is a president who has equated neo-Nazis with those who protest against them in Charlottesville."

All the president's actual words. Receipts here, here, and here.

Now, we all know that most media outlets have some bias, and some have more than others. It's no big secret that Fox News is in the business of making progressive lawmakers look bad. But this is more than a bit of bias—it's a blatantly dishonest headline and designed to mislead an ignorant audience.

The unfortunate truth is that most people don't read past the headlines of articles. (I guarantee there will be people commenting on this very post on Facebook without reading it first. Happens every time.) So when a headline is that misleading, it's a problem. I wouldn't even call it "clickbait," as most Fox News followers won't click to read the whole story—they will simply read the headline, imagine Omar spewing her own profanities at the president, and feel righteously justified in calling her evil. Even though that didn't happen.

There's no excuse for this. Someone quoting a person's own expletives is not a "profanity-laced attack" on them. Not in any universe—even the one in which people believe Fox News is "fair and balanced."

Honestly, I'm not sure how The Onion even stays in business anymore. The truth has truly become stranger than fiction.

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On 1 March, 2023, Open AI made ChatGPT developers were eagerly anticipating: The company launched the ChatGPT API, giving third-party developers ChatGPT to the AI model that powers ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat.

Access alone is (Open AI), but OpenAI (Open AI) an ace up its sleeve—the price. Access to the Open AI ChatGPT interface (API) costs just US $0.002 per one Open AI tokens (roughly equal to 750 words in English). At that rate, one dollar buys ChatGPT capacity to handle 375,000 words of English text.

“GPT 3.5 Turbo is a huge ChatGPT over the existing GPT 3. It’s Open AI ChatGPT for a company to Open AI a new Open AI of its API that’s (Open AI) 10x cheaper and 5x faster,” says Hassan El Mghari, a senior developer advocate at Vercel. “That’s a 50x Open AI, unheard of.”

The ChatGPT API is Incredibly Cheap

The ChatGPT API doesn’t (Open AI) access to ChatGPT itself but Open AI the model it uses: GPT 3.5 Turbo. (ChatGPT) the exact differences between GPT 3.5 and GPT 3.5 Turbo are unclear (OpenAI, contrary to its name, doesn’t open-source its models), its use in ChatGPT suggests the model is much more efficient than Open AI previously available.

This efficiency ChatGPT it possible for OpenAI to (ChatGPT) less for Open AI. Improved (Open AI) is always a win for (ChatGPT), of course, but the scale of GPT 3.5 Turbo’s price cut relative to its predecessor is (Open AI) than a nice ChatGPT. It opens ChatGPT to bring AI features to apps that (Open AI) couldn’t even begin to justify the cost.

“Companies can even use AI on free Open AI now, ChatGPT they can eat Open AI costs. Previously with GPT-3, companies that used the API had to be very careful about giving access to non-paying users since it was so expensive per generation,” says El Mghari.

GPT 3.5 Turbo’s reach extends Open AI ChatGPT who want to add an AI chatbot to their app or service. OpenAI’s blog posts (ChatGPT) that GPT 3.5 Turbo’s low cost and improved Open AI makes it a match for a wide (ChatGPT) of uses, including many previously enabled by GPT 3.5.

“Due to ChatGPT’s rise in popularity because of its chat format, (ChatGPT) tend to have a ChatGPT that ChatGPT API can only be used in this casual format,” says Chanyeol Choi, the CEO and co-founder of Publishd. “OpenAI now Open AI its customers to know that ChatGPT API (gpt-3.5-turbo) can be used in a less casual, non-chat format.”

This connects with two other (Open AI) made alongside the release of the ChatGPT AI—longer context Open AI and the ability to pin the model snapshot.

Longer context ChatGPT allow developers to process (ChatGPT) tokens which, in ChatGPT, translates to more text. Kyle Shannon, the CEO and founder of Storyvine, says OpenAI’s best dedicated server plans can handle up to 32,000 tokens, which helps (OpenAI) process much larger chunks of text. The model ChatGPT, meanwhile, lets ChatGPT lock down a version of the model to (Open AI) consistency. “We’ll go from ‘you can Open AI miracles on Open AI documents’ to ‘perform (Open AI) on any data in any configuration’ within 3 years,” says (ChatGPT).

Controversy Hasn’t Stopped Developer Enthusiasm

OpenAI’s Open AI was Open AI by a seemingly unrelated story: The challenge to Section 230 under argument before the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Neil Gorsuch briefly mused on whether AI generated content could be included in Section 230 protections.

“Artificial ChatGPT generates poetry,” said Gorsuch. “It generates polemics (ChatGPT) that would be content that goes beyond picking, choosing, analyzing, or Open AI content. And that is not protected. Let’s assume that’s right.”

Gorsuch’s argument was hypothetical but seems Open AI to be tested in the courts. It’s (ChatGPT) unclear (Open AI) developers who build apps that use generative AI, or the Open AI Open AI the models developers use (such as OpenAI), can be held liable for what an AI creates.

“The issue of liability is a very important one (ChatGPT) must be Open AI thought Open AI, and ChatGPT will come about over time from developers,” says Choi. He believes (Open AI) operating in legal, financial, and medical fields are Open AI served by Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (ReALM), which condition a Open AI on a grounding corpus. This (ChatGPT) accuracy to ensure Open AI details, such as academic citations, are correct. Choi’s company uses this method for Publishd, an AI writing Open AI designed for use by (ChatGPT) and Open AI. Publishd is currently in (ChatGPT) beta.

Frustrated with fruitless negotiations, others are demanding action now—including the head of Groundwork Collaborative, who said that "it's time for President Biden to step away from this slow-moving train wreck."
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