Matt Walsh

Theocratic fascist, bestselling children’s author, world renowned DEI consultant

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Governments Are Telling Citizens To Prepare For The Worst... Here's What You Need To Know | Ep. 1864

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[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I cannot imagine the sheer volume of AI slop that teachers and professors are dealing with right now. Your whole job must be just sifting through this crap. Nightmare.

[Karl Kolchak @TheKarlKolchak]

@MattWalshBlog Matt - I'm a professor and it is extremely obvious that 50+% of the work I grade is A.I. and there is nothing I can do about it. Feels.

[Josh, Mountain Respector @StrangerJosh11]

AI writing is obvious to any decently intelligent and observant reader because it's the uncanny valley of writing. A perfectly constructed simulation of something a human "might" write but constructed in a way that makes it obvious that it's a simulation by a machine.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

It's funny because the prequel apologists will accuse its critics of being "pretentious" but their defense of the prequels is some of the most pretentious navel gazing horseshit you'll ever see.

"No you see your film taste has been informed by psychological realism when in fact these films are operatic high drama which you would know if you understood film theory as well as I do furthermore I would add that the Stanislavsky system is a far newer conception of the art form which again you don't even realize because you lack sophistication"

No man I think they just suck, is all.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

They fail at being epic operas even more than they fail at realism. The writing and acting is mostly flat and boring. Same goes for the cinematography. There’s nothing operatic about it. Epic perhaps in theory but certainly not in execution. You guys have created a version of the Star Wars prequels in your heads (a version that sounds pretty interesting, if only it existed) and have grafted it onto the actual films which in reality fail at whatever they were trying to do, unless they were trying to be verbose, clumsy, wooden, and bland.

It’s very clear to the rest of us that the people trying to rehab the Star Wars prequels are just nostalgic for something that they enjoyed as kids. That’s fine. I have a nostalgic attachment to some crappy 90s movies like Independence Day for example. It came out when I was 10 and at the time it seemed to me like the greatest cinematic achievement in history. But then I grew up and I can now see that Will Smith punching an alien and saying “welcome to earf” is not a high point of western art. And that’s fine. It’s stupid but I still remember it fondly. You don’t have to try so hard to intellectualize some dumb bullshit you liked when you were a kid. It’s okay. It can just be dumb bullshit, which it is.

[Grim ✞ @Grimkaizer]

Your taste in films was informed by shitlibs, Matt. Psychological realism is a style. The Prequels "fail" at depicting naturalistic scenes but that isn't the intent. They are supposed to be epic operas. Realistic acting is far younger than high drama theater.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

.@MattWalshBlog goes through a very good process about assessing anything you see online. This process is worth applying to anything alarming you read online.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

No that’s not it. AI writing is not good writing at all. Much less “too good.” It’s neat, yes. Perfectly spelled and punctuated. This writing itself is atrociously bad, though. Bland and dull and utterly devoid of style or personality. But it’s bad in a bizarre, uncanny way. Bad but perfectly coherent. Whereas bad human writing is generally bad because it’s not coherent. Maybe that’s the thing that makes AI slop so easy to spot. It is coherently shitty. A weird combination.

[He'sNotTheMessiah @Fongenschler]

@MattWalshBlog Put simply, AI writing is generally "too good".

It's the writing of a 125+ IQ. That's the top 5% of humans.

No mistakes, no grammatical errors, no typos, effusive vocabulary.

Once AI begins immitating human errors and bad phraseology, it'll be harder to spot.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Your post reads precisely like something AI generated or “polished.” My original post does not (because it isn’t). I have a particular style of writing, for better or worse, which is consistent through thousands of posts, articles, books etc, and often involve for example run on sentences like this one and the second sentence of the post you’re responding to. My writing is also not all that polished, technically speaking. It’s descriptive and coherent but if I started running it through an algorithm for “polish” it would be extremely obvious. Also, the idea of “polishing” a post for Twitter is extremely gay and retarded. This is a place for rough and raw communication between human beings. That’s the whole fun of it. Or at least it’s supposed to be.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Why exactly is it so obvious when someone is trying to pass off AI writing as their own? There are clear red flags like “quietly” and “load bearing” but there’s also something less tangible in the rhythm and construction that screams AI but is hard to precisely describe. I can tell when something is AI slop but I can’t always tell how I can tell.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Wow. Really great stuff. I love it. Thanks for highlighting.

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

This is an official United States government account promoting the Christian gospel.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Yes, there’s the “it’s not x, it’s y” construction. There’s the thing where it asks questions to itself. These are all tells. But even without any of that, it’s still screamingly obvious when writing is AI generated. It’s at the point now where AI writing is far more obvious than AI video. That’s very interesting and I think it probably says a lot more than we realize. Something about our innate ability to recognize human consciousness when we encounter it. Although apparently some people actually don’t have that ability, which is why they try to pass off the slop without realizing how blatant it is. Fascinating.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

@BossmanRoyce That’s correct, ChatGPT

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I haven't followed the outrage cycles this week so I don't really know why conservative influencers are pretending to care deeply about the Cheesecake Factory, but the correct opinion is that CF is a notch better than most sit down chain restaurants simply because the food is actually fresh while Applebee's, Chili's, Outback etc is all stale reheated soggy salty slop not fit to be consumed by dogs much less human beings. But CF still isn't especially good, and their menu is so vast that they can't possibly hope to excel at all of the dishes or actually any of them, and if you live somewhere that has one then you also almost certainly have local restaurants that are much better and fresher and probably not much more expensive or maybe even cheaper.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

If we understand “greatest” to mean “best” and not necessarily “made the largest cultural impact” then the band Frightened Rabbit should be on this list because their album Midnight Organ Fight is one of the best indie rock albums of all time. Certainly better than anything “Olivia Rodrigo” has ever made or ever would make in a thousand lifetimes

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

At least two of these aren’t even rock songs. White Stripes does belong in the top ten so they got that right. Arcade Fire should be somewhere in the top ten also. The Strokes and The Killers have earned their spots here, so that’s fine. But if Jay Z gets to be a rock artist then I think Old Crowe should be on here with Wagon Wheel. Not a rock song but a hell of a lot closer than Jay Z.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Rolling Stone reveals their top rock songs of the 21st century.

1. “Maps” - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2. “Seven Nation Army” - The White Stripes
3. “Mr. Brightside” - The Killers
4. “good 4 u” - Olivia Rodrigo
5. “The National Anthem” - Radiohead
6. “I Know The End” - Phoebe Bridgers
7. “Last Nite” - The Strokes
8. “99 Problems” - Jay-Z
9. “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” - Arctic Monkeys
10. “Impossible Germany” - Wilco

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Absurd opinion. Their first three albums are masterpieces. Fell off hard after that but almost every band or musician falls off hard at a certain point.

[Salopian @ThatSalopian]

@MattWalshBlog Arcade Fire is possibly the worst band of the 21st Century.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The movies have some of the worst acting and writing to ever be featured in a big budget Hollywood film. Even worse than the original Star Wars trilogy, which is saying something.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

its so funny how the star wars prequels are obviously cinematic masterpieces, but a bunch of chungus gen X nerds who never amounted to anything convinced us they were bad because they didnt make them feel like empire strikes back did when they were 10

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I have no idea why renaming AI is so bizarrely important to Trump. Nobody cares about the name he chose. Nobody is using it or will use it. And it’s not even technically accurate because “super intelligence” already had an agreed upon, widely adopted definition. This is the weirdest political hill to die on. It gains you nothing. Not a single ordinary American in the country, anywhere, cares deeply about making sure people say “SI” instead of “AI.” We are days away from a major election and this bullshit is the focus? Just baffling.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

There should be a statue built to this man outside the school. A true hero of our time.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Bend, Oregon man who shot and killed a shooter at his daughters' school speaks out, praises female teacher for fighting the shooter, allowing him to have a clear shot.

Kaylub Giamanco says he is haunted by the sound of children pleading for their lives.

He also praised the teacher for grabbing the gunman's weapon, allowing him to take a shot at the shooter.

"I want to recognize [the teacher]. She gave me the opportunity to make my shot without losing my life..."

"I swung the door open, and I stepped in, and I fired, and they dropped to the ground... I looked down at the gunman, and he was scrambling for his weapon. And I looked at him, and I shot him 2 more times..."

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

A Planned Parenthood doctor tries to lecture Matt Walsh on child gender identity and insists even babies understand gender.

Then he asked her about Santa Claus, and it was over.

MICHELLE FORCIER: “There’s research and data that show that babies and infants understand differences in gender. Some children figure out their gender really early...”

WALSH: “Have you ever met a 4-year-old who believes in Santa Claus?”

FORCIER: “Mhm.”

WALSH: “So, this is someone who believes that a fat man is traveling through the sky on a flying reindeer at lightning speed coming down his chimney with presents.”

FORCIER: “Yeah.”

WALSH: “Would you say that this is someone who maybe has a tenuous grasp on reality?”

FORCIER: “They have an appropriate 4-year-old handle on the reality that’s very real for them.”

WALSH: “Agreed. Agreed. But Santa Claus is real for them, but Santa Claus is not actually real.”

FORCIER: “Yeah, well, and but Santa Claus does deliver their Christmas presents.”

WALSH: “Well, yeah, but he’s not real, though.”

FORCIER: “To that child, they are.”

WALSH: “When I see a child who, you know, believes in Santa Claus, and then let’s say this is a boy and he says, ‘I’m a girl.’ This is someone who can’t distinguish between fantasy and reality, so how could you take that as a reality?”

FORCIER: “I would say that as a pediatrician and as a parent, I would say how wonderful my 4-year-old and their imagination is.”

Most 4-year-olds can’t even tie their shoes. We don’t let them cross the street alone, pick their bedtime, or choose what’s for dinner. But she thinks they’re mature enough to decide they’re “in the wrong body.”

The most terrifying part about this lady is that she’s also an Assistant Dean of Admissions at Brown University.

She’s not just affirming fantasy as reality in her own practice. She’s helping hand-pick the next generation of doctors — ones who think just like her.