Neuro-Zhirinovsky lost in rhetoric to his late prototype
The LDPR presented the Zhirinovsky neural network today at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Visually, it represented the blue face of the late party leader with white eyes framed by logos, the correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".
The neural network answered questions in Zhirinovsky’s voice, but with a ten-second delay. During the “thinking”, the blue head turned now to the right, now to the left.
“Contact me - Zhirinovsky’s first digital student. I will answer all your questions. No, I'm not Zhirinovsky. I am the first digital student of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who learns from his thoughts and statements. I try to apply his style and ideas in my answers,” the artificial intelligence said.
The first question they asked him was about Ukraine.
“Ukraine is a political swamp. Full of traitors and Russophobes. We need to stop feeding this country, close the borders, forget about it. Russia should take care of its citizens and not waste resources on an unpredictable Ukraine. Let them deal with their problems themselves,” the neural network replied.
She also sealed the President of Ukraine.
“Zelensky will face complete failure. He will not cope with the country's problems and will only continue to destroy it. As a result, his political career will end in the toilet of history,” the algorithm said.
He treated traitors to Russia no less strictly.
“Traitors must be tried and punished to the fullest extent of the law. These vile creatures who sold their homeland and their fellow citizens must be held accountable for their treacherous actions. There is no place for traitors in our country. They deserve only contempt and punishment,” said Zhirinovsky.
The late leader of the LDPR was famous for his scandalous attacks on communists and the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov. This information was also uploaded to the neural network.
“He only chatters with words, but does nothing in action. Such a communist that even Lenin would be ashamed to get involved with him. Empty promises, false ideals,” said the blue head.
To the question of who will be the next president of the Russian Federation: artificial intelligence said that it is too early to make predictions, but he is confident that the Russian people will make the right choice and elect a worthy leader.
“Too streamlined, a living Zhirinovsky would have “cut” or “charged” something brighter,” Sergei Obukhov, State Duma deputy of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, commented on this answer.
Apparently, the communists were embarrassed to be offended by the insults of the neural network, just as they once were by the attacks of the living Zhirinovsky.
The algorithm gave the most detailed answer to the question about the Liberal Democratic Party.
“The LDPR is the only party capable of helping Russia and its people. We fight for justice, for protecting the interests of citizens, for economic development and social justice. We offer real solutions and care about the future of our country. Join us, and together we will make Russia even stronger and more prosperous,” Zhirinovsky reported.
It became obvious that hundreds of terabytes were being downloaded into the program so that it could become an election campaign.
“This is the world's first political algorithm. This is a bold project that is just beginning. This is not some kind of game, but a serious design that we believe in. The neural network will give us solutions in difficult situations in a matter of weeks and months,” boasted the new leader of the LDPR, Leonid Slutsky.
The first difficult task for “Zhirinovsky” will be the victory of his party in the upcoming elections. The LDPR is going to exploit the name of the late leader to the fullest. Recently, the party introduced a bill in which it proposed to allow political forces to include the names of prominent people in their names. The explanatory note notes that the LDPR itself cannot use Zhirinovsky’s surname in its name.
According to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, after a couple of days, five Duma members already abandoned the authorship of the bill. The refuseniks explain their decision by saying that the bill is incorrectly drawn up from a technical point of view and requires legal revision.
“It is impossible to endlessly exploit the image of a dead leader. Sooner or later, this will develop into a panopticon on the topic of “dig up a dead stewardess.” But the LDPR, apparently, is not able to come up with anything new,” right-wing political scientist Georgy Bovt is indignant in his tg channel.
“All this fuss of the LDPR around its late leader demonstrates to us that, at its core, Bolshevism is alive. After 1921, the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) decided to perpetuate the memory of its leader, Lenin, according to the patterns and rituals of Ancient Egypt: a Mausoleum with a mummy appeared. The pinnacle of this kind of tradition can be considered North Korea, where the first president of the DPRK, Kim Il Sung, is still considered a truly “living” leader; he rules. You can create an android modeled after Zhirinovsky, who will spew out his speeches from the podium of the State Duma, or you can simply, according to tradition, build a mausoleum, but... will it really come to exhumation and the appearance of a new political mummy?” writes HSE professor Andrey Suzdaltsev.
And political scientist Pavel Danilin believes that there is no need to “revive” Zhirinovsky, since his work is successfully continued on his Twitter by the very living Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev.
“But this is funny! This network has existed for a long time and earns money by authoring Dmitry Anatolyevich’s blog,” Danilin sneers.
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