@guardian: I’m sure we’d all love to know what the AI prompt: “Show me Donald Trump as a doctor” would generate, writes The Guardian’s columnist Marina Hyde. ‌ … or indeed how the LLM of choice would react when called out on its subsequent error. ‌ You’ve no doubt seen the controversy that attends the image Trump shared on his Truth Social/True Sociopath platform. ‌ It depicts Trump in Jesus robes and holding a glowing orb of something – presumably heavenly light or radioactive material he omitted to tell Congress about – which he is transmitting restoratively into the forehead of some midwestern Lazarus. ‌ After it incensed leading figures in the Christian right, which makes up a large part of his voter base, the US president later deleted it, lamenting that he “didn’t want anybody to be confused. People were confused.” ‌ Even were we to take someone widely seen as one of Earth’s leading liars at his word, the Trump of this image would surely be the most terrifying medical professional you could possibly conceive of, finally supplanting Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers. ‌ I don’t know if you’ve seen that 1980s bodyshock classic, but Irons plays psychopathic twin gynaecologists who commission a metallurgical artist to create their own bespoke surgical instruments. Shudder. ‌ Yet, as indicated, I would infinitely rather have those guys do my smear test than wake up to find Donald Trump “making me better” under the adoring gaze of … hold on, let me squint again at this iconic image … some US service personnel, a daytime soap nurse, a heavenly host of war dead and some kind of F16 flypast. ‌ After posting himself as Potus Almighty. Will his disciples now see that their messiah has feet of clay? Read Hyde’s full opinion piece via the link.

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