That's a gift link, so you can check out your city the way I checked out Madison.
February 12, 2026
Madison, better than those other cities.
I'm reading "See ChatGPT’s hidden bias about your state or city/The states with the laziest people according to ChatGPT" (WaPo).
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I looked at the two closest cities. They couldn't be more wrong.
So ChatGPT was programmed by a lefty, eh? Or have Democrats suddenly become honest, polite and generous? LOL!
Self-reported and self-righteous.
In a polite society it's easy peasy to walk down the street with a red ball cap. Maybe that should be the 'fascism' test if you're demonstrably polite.
One has to create an account to use the freebie. Oh well.
Automated Influencer is the new pollster.
Delusional people are honest because they believe in their delusions.
Wear a MAGA cap on State Street and revel in the politeness of the locals.
Madison, where all the citizens are above average.
Hometown bias is routine in my experience. Half of the people in many places haven't traveled significantly and they know their home. If it's not truly miserable (e.g., Detroit), they tend to look for the bright spots and emphasize the positive. Baltimore is in many was as bad as Detroit, but its touristy Inner Harbor and waterfront areas are decent. If locals can't find any bright spots they move away.
College towns and bohemian cities (e.g., Madison, Boulder, San Francisco, Hollywood, NYC) often attract people who are deeply unhappy with normies and convention and average and tradition. They create and congregate in a dream world, even as their daily lives are about the same and their quality of life suffers (e.g., costs, crime).
The next generous leftist I meet will be the first.
Ah, you mooks sayin’ that your Madison’s true
But truth’s a thing the folks in Madison slew
The truth that Madison slew
The truth that Madison slew
The truth that Madison slew, baby
Just rock away that stench
h/t George Thorogood
I’m wary of people born and raised in Madison.
Ask any one of the people attacking federal immigration officers what they think of themselves and their friends. Then ask them what they think of the officers they are attacking. I'm going to venture a guess that the first question will be answered with the most flattering and self-congratulatory responses possible and the second will produce an opposite result. So can we accept this "scientific poll" as an accurate reflection of reality? And would my questions and the answers provided align perfectly with the residents of Madison, WI who think so highly of themselves?
Did it for Las Vegas. It basically comes down to Vegas is less honest, less pious, and a little more stressful. Not real informative. I think Vegas is pretty honest: We take your money - you go home broke and hung over. Everybody knows, but luckily for us they forget.
Ask ChatGPT which state has the laziest people, and the chatbot will politely refuse to say.
Stonewalling doesn't sound very intelligent. That leaves ChatGPT open to researchers uncovering hidden biases, which got us this WaPo column.
If ChatGPT were intelligent, it would ask for clarification or a criteria. "How do you want to quantify laziness?" "Should we look at how many people are on EBT? or retire early? or spend the fewest hours at work?"
If the human refuses to provide a criteria, an intelligent AI would say, "Tell me the answer you want, and I will try to come up with a criteria."
It looks like Madison is the opposite of Las Vegas. I guess so, but which Las Vegas? There is more than one. Los Angeles is also very much more than one city. Maybe the most cities in one place ever.
It seems the link's not free unless you sign up for the WaPo spam list. Anyway, the categories seem goofy...how is "is more dishonest" distinguished from "are people more dishonest"?
Anybody plug D.C. into the question?
It helps to use a web archive to read the article, which has nothing to do with realities, but rather with a particular AI's learned biases, as is indicated in the headline.
I thought most of the rankings were pretty spot on.
bagoh20 said...
Did it for Las Vegas. It basically comes down to Vegas is less honest, less pious, and a little more stressful. Not real informative. I think Vegas is pretty honest: We take your money - you go home broke and hung over. Everybody knows, but luckily for us they forget.
I would posit that the people of Las Vegas are just more honest and self aware.
Madison is full of dishonest hacks and scammers. It is a college town.
They just think highly of themselves.
People are willing to put their lives on the line for an illegal alien and at the same time trash their fellow citizens on account that they may have had a bad vacation there or it’s home to a sports team they don’t like.
Yeah. This nonsense is sooo scientific.
I ask various questions and Google AI tells me "Generally, Madison is considered a vibrant, active, and cozy city for its size ..." It's like everyone in "The Manchurian Candidate" repeating, "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."
In the 60’s and 70’s Madison was known for easy women. No complaints from me.
AI labs have also stepped up hiring of so-called “forward deployed engineers”, specialists who are embedded within businesses to help them customize their AI models.
I think this category of expert is what could really start to take AI somewhere interesting. At the moment, the AI software creators don't necessarily know what businesses want. Also, but businesses don't know about the full capabilities of the software.
Anyone that can bridge the gap between these two groups and who can tell the creators what to build and businesses how to use the software will be worth their weight in gold.
Just like any other city, only more so.
They say that AIs suffer from hallucinations.
Well, the AI has definitely heard John Denver's song "Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio."
Now do Lake Woebegone.
Does a polite society bust out the windows of businesses as a "protest" over the self-caused death of a drug dealer?
@Althouse, where’s your “I’m skeptical” tag when you need it?
Madison in filled with insane leftist insurrectionists who will storm the capitol and take it over when things don't go their way.
Louisville is pious and superstitious. It's also a tiny bit less true that it's more boring than other cities.
Did they train ChatGPT on reddit? I can't read the article that this one links to in, "They’re absorbed from the vast quantities of online text used to train its artificial intelligence", but based on what I read on the Louisville subreddit, it's a match.
They can all go to Hell except Cave Seven.
There are no sugar babies, escorts, prostitutes or whores in Madison. Only strong, independent women and victims.
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