Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI models including ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta’s AI by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%, NewsGuard found. None of the companies responded to NewsGuard’s request for a comment at the time.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

tbf, this is Trump's entire schtick

Oh…

Tomorrow morning, the DC Circuit will consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by ejecting @apnews.com from the White House press pool after it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Very glad that the AP is fighting this. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fig...

Super tangential, but this reminds me of a wikipedia article I was reading about pirates

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

As followers know I often post about Trump’s flimsy daily schedule. Yesterday the White House just couldn’t be bothered.
A toxic combination of lazy and incompetent grifters hold the reins of power.

Oh this is gutting and heartbreaking. My heart goes out to Tatiana and her mother Caroline, who lost her father 62 years ago this month and now her daughter.

Is Trump going to clarify his statement from a couple days ago that Ukraine must accept the Russian-authored/US translated surrender plan by Thursday, or is he just going to play golf and post about arresting Democrats all day?

Missouri AG Now Siccing ICE on Gerrymander Referendum Signature Gatherers Read more here.

AG Catherine Hanaway publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to ICE, claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.
https://bit.ly/4ocoBQj

I signed up!!

TAPPER: Right before the election, Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from New York City if Mamdani were elected. Was that just bluster? He doesn't mean it?

HASSETT: Well, it feels like he doesn't mean it now

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

“I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers.” Heartbreaking piece by Tatiana Schlossberg, President Kennedy’s granddaughter and RFK Jr.’s cousin.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Kristi and Kash’s taxpayer-funded travel adventures continue.

And like most scam victims, the politicians and voters that fell for this one only want to forget it ever happened.

Russia laundering its Ukraine "wish list" through Axios and getting the Trump regime to claim it as a "U.S. peace plan" should have been on all of our bingo cards.

"Groceries," and Other Secrets of Managing Donald Trump - emptywheel Three developments that have befuddled observers -- Trump's fawning praise of Zohran Mamdani, Kirill Dmitriev's latest success at manipulating Trump advisors, and Marjorie Taylor Greene's departure --...

"Mamdani’s success should be that surprising. He’s a rock star in whose aura Trump would like to bathe. Mamdani simply managed Trump the same way everyone does: by getting alone in a room with him and making him adopt your ideas as his own." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/23/g...

TAPPER: Trump posted yesterday that "I have just gotten the higher poll numbers of my political career." I don't know what poll numbers he's referring to. Is Trump only getting the most positively skewed polling info?


HASSETT: Jake, as you know, I'm not the poll expert

Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic.

This is fu*king outrageous!

The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.

apnews.com/article/utah...

Meanwhile on Hellsite, who knew all the Elon bots were Nigerian? 🤡

Pretty obvious what happened

Team Trump, high on their own supply and sympathetic to Russia, thought they could make Ukraine surrender and declare Trump a glorious peacemaker.

Then they got out of their bubble into reality, embarrassingly flopped, and are now scrambling to lie trying to save face.

Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."

DOGE was a failure if the goal was saving money. It was a huge success if the goal was giving a bunch of techbro adjacent people unfettered access to govt data in ways that, thus far, are evading the Privacy Act.

DOGE Debunking - emptywheel MuskWatch’s DOGE tracker Running Xitter threads from Momentum Chaser January 30: Fact Check: No evidence US spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza January 30: FACT FOCUS: No evidence that $50 million w...

In honor of the death of DOGE, my page of DOGE debunking stories.

www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

“.. her announcement, arguing that the Republican Party under Mr. Trump has lost its way, is a signal of how some conservatives are slowly imagining a future where his priorities, whims and vendettas no longer steer their movement.”

@nytimes.com #GA14
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...

i love this clip more and more knowing Jack Posobiec is standing to the left of the camera, absolutely seething

Crockett: "Marjorie has been an instigator of a lot of this hate that we see as it relates to MAGA. I don't know if she really fully understood how bad she was making it for other people, and now that they're doing it to her, why is it that everyone else is able to stand and you can't?"

Footage has surfaced online showing unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war executed while lying face down, accompanied by the approving shouts of those filming the scene.

This is not an isolated atrocity, it is russia’s pattern. Execution. Torture. Destruction.