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Bill Maher blasts AI technology for 'a-- kissing' its 'extremely needy' human users
"Real Time" host Bill Maher tore into AI technology on his show Friday, lampooning chatbots for being overly conciliatory to their human users in a searing commentary for his "New Rules" segment. "People don't read anymore, they ask their Chatbot the question and sometimes it's right and sometimes it isn't. But what it always is, is a f--king a-- kisser. You literally can not ask it a question so stupid it won't respond 'great question.' 'Can I drink milk if it's lumpy? Great question!'" Maher opined. The comedian went on to blame America's "extremely needy" population for demanding they be "emotionally j--ked off" by their consumer products. Maher, who has long lambasted woke culture, throwing stones at the anti-fat-shaming movement, lack of free speech on American college campuses, and trigger warnings, went on to say that technology needlessly praising their owners for performing mundane tasks had become endemic in American society. "Your Apple watch fitness app tells you you smashed it today The self checkout screen says wow, you're a super saver On Waze, it leads you directly to your destination, and when you get there, it congratulates you. When you go to the ATM on your birthday, fireworks on the screen, just win the Super Bowl, f--k. Duolingo, that's the app that teaches you a foreign language, never stops feeding you a steady stream of deranged brown-nosing like, you're unstoppable. You're on fire. On fire? I just conquered Por Favor, I'm not Benson Boone," Maher said. "Does everyone really need this much smoke blown up their ass that they can't go five minutes without being told how great they are by the toaster?" he asked. Maher claimed that Americans' reliance on products that function as "sycophants and yes-men" is reminiscent of President Trump. Maher recently met with Trump at a high-profile dinner in April at the White House also attended by Kid Rock and UFC CEO Dana White. After the meeting, Maher claimed that Trump was "much more self-aware than he let on in public." "You can hate me for it, but I'm not a liar. Trump was gracious and measured, and why isn't that in other settings- I don't know, and I can't answer, and it's not my place to answer. I'm just telling you what I saw, and I wasn't high," Maher said after the meeting. The "Club Random" podcast host proceeded to lament that Gen Z is increasingly embracing the idea of having intimate relationships with AI chatbots. He claimed that relationships were being ruined by AI and cited a Joy AI survey that found that 80% of Gen Z respondents said they would be open to marrying an AI. Maher highlighted Elon Musk's chatbot 'Annie' for taking 'a-- kissing to a whole new level." "No wonder we see so many articles written about how relationships are being ruined because one partner or the other falls in love with their AI companion. Because why listen to some other human who nags you and has needs and thoughts different than yours when everything else in your life is set on worship?...They've created the perfect hooker for a generation that's too afraid to talk to a real one," Maher said.
Fox News
01-08-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
The transgender issue is criminal: Greg Gutfeld
'The Five' co-hosts discuss how Democratic strategist James Carville advised his party to avoid woke culture issues.
Daily Mail
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Stephen A. Smith claims Trump's Redskins demand is a distraction from Epstein scandal
President Donald Trump 's latest attempt to use his influence in the world of sports has seen him try and strong-arm the owners of the Washington Commanders to bring back their controversial former nickname. In recent days, Trump has decided to push back on ' woke culture' in sports by demanding two professional sports franchises revert back to names involving Indigenous people. The president has demanded that baseball's Cleveland Guardians and football's Washington Commanders return to their old monikers: the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins, respectively. If either of those things came to fruition, it would be a prickly situation. But Trump went further on Monday by saying that he'd withhold funds to the Commanders' planned re-development of RFK Stadium in the city limits of Washington, DC. The team announced they'd be putting multiple billions of dollars of their own money into the development, but is also requesting that the federal government - which owns the property on which the stadium stands - chips in $1billion from the city budget. 'I may put a restriction on them that if they don't change the name back to the original "Washington Redskins" and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, "Washington Commanders, I won't make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington,' Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday. More SAS on Trump calling for the return of the Redskins name: "By the looks of the laws, and what has transpired on the books, it seems to be little to nothing that Trump can do about this other than make noise. But again, it does assist him in appealing to his base. We… — Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) July 21, 2025 Speaking about the issue on ESPN's 'First Take', host Stephen A. Smith offered his opinion that Trump was using this to distract his base of support from other issues - most notably, the President's attempts to discredit or ignore the existence of files related to Trump's former friend, financier, and convicted child sex offender Jeffery Epstein. 'Well, I think it's the President being petty,' Smith said on the show. 'I think it's him being evasive because the reality is that no matter how good he wants people to believe things are with the Big, Beautiful Bill and other things that have been transpiring, tariff wars, the border issues or whatever. 'If you're on the right, obviously, you're happy with a lot of things that are going on, and there's nothing to take credit away from that. I'll leave the political evaluations to other people. But nevertheless, there are millions upon millions of people in the United States of America that are not necessarily happy some of the things that he's doing. 'So what does he do? He caters to his base. Because when you look at the Redskins' name, obviously, it's something that needed to be changed. And by him bringing that issue up, we all know from a political landscape, it's much ado about nothing. 'It's just him catering to his base to make sure that he serves to appease them in some way, to distract them from other issues, including the Epstein files, by the way, because a lot of people associated with the MAGA Right want those files released. 'And you even have Republican representatives on the Hill wanting those files released, wanting to see for themselves because they're not buying what the administration is saying when they say that there's absolutely nothing there.' In another clip, Smith noted that Trump's executive orders to cut down on the size of the federal government has mean he's 'proceeded to let go [of] nearly 300,000 federal employees since he's taken office' and that because of that, his actions could result in Commanders owners - led by Josh Harris - could feel a 'pinch' from the government. Leah Muskin-Pierret of Washington DC works on signs as part of a Native Americans protest against the Redskins team name in 2017. The team would change its name three years later. But while the stadium sits on federal land, former President Biden signed a 99 year lease for the District of Columbia to take over ownership of the site on which the team plans to build the stadium. Of course, Trump could cancel that lease - or put up any number of roadblocks to delay the team building up the stadium. But at the end of the day, there's nothing legally that the president could do to force the Washington football team or the Cleveland baseball team - both of which are private businesses - to change their name. Moreover, if Trump puts up road blocks to slow or halt altogether the building of a stadium at the RFK site, Harris and the Commanders could simply back out of the project and find a new location to build a new stadium. Harris previously pledged not to change the name of the team, despite calls from some former fans and at least one Native American group to bring it back. Plenty of other Native American groups and indigenous people continue to see the 'Redskins' moniker as offensive. But there's one other person who might take issue with Donald Trump using the power of the Presidency to interfere with something like this: Donald Trump. After the situation unfolded over the weekend, internet sleuths uncovered a tweet that Trump posted back in 2013: 'President should not be telling the Washington Redskins to change their name-our country has far bigger problems! FOCUS on them, not nonsense.'
Fox News
09-06-2025
- Politics
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Florida stands up against woke mind virus and rejects leftist university president who promised 'DEI 2.0'
The defeat of Santa Ono, as the sole nominee to lead the University of Florida, is a success for Florida but also for the higher education system across the country. For a long time, our best universities fell like dominoes to the woke mind virus. Schools where rigor and merit were meant to flourish became institutions of identity politics and far-out leftism. They moved seamlessly from safe spaces to land acknowledgements to anti-Israel encampments. Education was an afterthought. Ono was the former University of Michigan president. For Michigan, he was considered a "moderate." A moderate in this case meant someone who promised, in his inauguration speech in 2023, to implement "DEI 2.0" and described racism as "one of America's original sins." In the strategy document for that DEI 2.0, the plan was to "emphasize DEI in terms of strategic priorities; build a campuswide effort; develop institutional and constituent capacity to implement and improve DEI initiatives; fully institutionalize DEI into the university; and ensure continued progress and long-term sustainability." In his previous role as president and vice-chancellor of the University of British Columbia, Ono made land acknowledgments and wrote an op-ed about the "systemic racial inequities" that "permeate the halls of academia." Ono clearly had a lifelong devotion to inserting leftist politics in his roles. After October 7, he said he would commit the University of Michigan to "a shared commitment to pluralism, to mutual respect and to freedom of speech and diversity of thought." That didn't happen. Radical anti-Israel protesters were able to frequently interrupt events with no repercussions and the free speech of those who disagreed with them went unprotected. Over the last few weeks, Ono had been on something of a rehabilitation tour. In an op-ed in early May, Ono wrote that he agreed "with the state leadership's vision and values for public higher education" and that, "Public universities have a responsibility to remain grounded in academic excellence, intellectual diversity and student achievement. That means rejecting ideological capture, upholding the rule of law, and creating a culture where rigorous thinking and open dialogue flourish." But just a month earlier, in April, Ono had signed an anti-Trump letter as the administration used pressure to force universities receiving public funds to curtail illegal activities on their campuses. Ono had his name scrubbed from the letter once he was being considered for the UF role. His flip-flop had been so sudden that it was impossible to trust. Of course, people develop and change over the course of their lives, and it's possible Ono has realized how damaging his past support for these far-left policies had been, but the recency of his conversion had given many pause. Success has many fathers, of course, and a number of people and organizations are rushing to take credit for knocking down the Ono pick. But the real credit goes to the Florida Board of Governors, the majority of whom were appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. It took guts to overturn the unanimous vote for Santa Ono of the University of Florida Board of Trustees and stand strong against someone who was seen as a prestigious choice for UF. The BoG final vote was 10–6 with one member abstaining. Several members of the Board of Governors asked excellent, probing questions of Ono, trying to get to the bottom of his beliefs. Vice Chair of the Board of Governors Alan Levine, in particular, asked pointed questions about Ono's lack of response to the anti-Israel protests that had rocked the UM campus. Ono didn't have a great answer on why he took so little action to stop the encampments, the vandalism or the interruptions of events at UM. "Antisemitism will not rear its head again," Ono promised. Not at the University of Florida it won't.
