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it's called an AI spiral when a person communicating with an AI chatbot loses touch with reality.
When I thought I was communicating with the digital God, I got dopamine from every prompt.
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President Trump says he didn't know a video he instructed his staff to post on social media contained an overtly racist depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama.
But as NPR's Tamara Keith reports, he's also not apologizing.
The AI-generated image of Barack and Michelle Obama's heads on ape bodies doesn't come until near the end of the two-minute video.
And I didn't see the whole thing.
I guess during the end of it, there was some kind of a picture that people don't like.
I wouldn't like it either, but I didn't see it.
I just, I looked at the first part.
Trump says he did instruct staff to post the video to his account.
Nobody knew that that was in the end.
If they would have looked, they would have seen it,
and probably they would have had the sense to take it down.
Still, Trump says he isn't firing anyone, doesn't need to apologize, and didn't make a mistake.
The video was ultimately taken down.
Tamara Keith, NPR News, Palm Beach, Florida.