Well, howdy there internet people, let's Bow again and welcome to the

Roads with Bow. Today is June 23rd, 2024, and this is episode 44 of The Roads Not Taken, which is a weekly series where we go through the previous

weeks events and talk about news that was unreported, underreported.

Didn't get the coverage I thought it deserved, or I just found it interesting. Then at the end

we go through some questions from y'all. Today we are starting off with a quick

public service announcement. If you go to Florida, please remember that Florida is a state that does not have a lot of safety

regulations. So those red flags out on the beach that say don't go in the water. They mean it. They mean it. It

would be advisable to follow those flags and what they mean. Okay. Foreign policy news Russia and North Korea entered into a defense

pact that is being played up all over the place.

It is important because it is now formalized, but realistically this doesn't really change many dynamics.

It's a big deal that it's formalized, but it's not shifting much. Okay a number of popular large language model AI chat

things they they function by things.

They function by scraping information off of the internet and giving it back to you when you ask a question.

A recent study indicated that they are scraping up

disinformation as well. I believe this study was about Russian

disinformation but it doesn't matter.

If it's scraping up one country's, it's scraping up every bodies.

So that's just something to keep in mind while you're using those programs.

Claims about the US Navy and the Red Sea on social media are prompting the Navy to actively counter them.

The Associated Press was invited out to the Eisenhower, which is the carrier that was either damaged or sunk depending on the narrative that went out at the time.

Here's the thing.

If the Navy is actively trying to counter these narratives, it becomes dangerous.

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