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ould find, you know, all the good stuff, you would run out of things to make it smarter, which is what's happening. They're running out of new material to train it. So it's as smart as it's going to get from the things it's already trained on. So instead they create what they call synthetic training material, which is they have one AI hallucinate, and then the hallucinations became what trains the…

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some pictures and her mentor was the current president. But of all the things, this is the thing that stood out when I saw her picture. Working the crowds, she's wearing a ponytail and she's pulling it off. You know, not everyone can make a ponytail work, but she totally pulls off a ponytail while she's campaigning. What do a lot of American politicians do? Do they ever wear ponytails in any official capacity? I feel like I've seen AOC in a ponytail when she was casual, maybe. I like it. She pulls off a ponytail. Is it just me? I'm always impressed by anybody who can simply pull off the look, right? Because the reason that big hair is popular is that we like it better. You have to have just the right look to pull off a ponytail, and she does. That's the least important thing in politics, but there it is.

Here's a story which you probably thought was real news that maybe is fake news. So today I will disappoint my audience by telling you things you thought were true that maybe are not so true. You may have seen a story, as I did this morning, that there's a claim, and I'm going to tell you what's wrong with the claim in a minute, but the claim is that there are 74,000 mail-in ballots received with no record they were mailed out. And that would be more than the margin of victory i

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n Arizona for the 2020 election. So that sounds pretty convincing. Does that sound pretty convincing? So this is a fact, right? It's a fact. And then I'm going to tell you why you're misinterpreting it. But it's a fact that you're supposed to know how many were mailed out, and then you're supposed to keep a record of how many were received. And don't you think it would be a problem if your record…

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