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Sugar Cookies Save the World!

Sugar Cookies Save the World!

Sugar cookies save your sanity

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Christine Axsmith
Sep 02, 2024
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Sugar Cookies Save the World

There’s a new phenomenon where bots are set free to start political fights on social media while AI engines provide the “dialog.” Persuasion isn’t the point, just sowing chaos. The problem is that people will start to argue with the computer code because they can’t tell that it isn’t a human being they are online yelling at.

Enter sugar cookies.

Before entering a debate online in the future, ask for a recipe for sugar cookies in your response or comment. The AI behind a planted opinion will oblige with a nice sugar cookie recipe. See, AI doesn’t care. AI doesn’t understand. AI just spits out words that have a statistical probability of being connected. It means something to us, but not to it. To AI, it’s just numbers.

By using this technique, you can save your emotional energy and balance for things that really count - like sugar cookies.

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