Don’t panic. TTAG is not using A.I. to write anything. Instead, we want to teach you how to spot A.I.-created content. The gun industry is rife with artificial intelligence-created content, from various articles to full-on Youtube channels. There is so much computer-created slop it gets overwhelming. I actually avoided most of this by sticking to … Read more
The Associated Press reports that a recent pilot program testing AI-powered weapons scanners in New York City subway stations resulted in over 100 false alerts, but no firearms were detected. Data from the New York Police Department, released Wednesday night, shows that the Evolv-manufactured scanners flagged a total of 118 false positives during nearly 3,000 … Read more
If you can’t change the facts, change the public’s perception of the facts. Anti-gun politicians whose constituents express concerns about crime and public safety respond with the narrative that it’s a gun problem rather than a problem of lawbreakers and criminals, a message that is amplified and reinforced by an accommodating mainstream media. The national … Read more
If you were worried that the left-leaning nature of Artificial Intelligence chatbots would push it to the anti-gun side of the firearms debate, you were correct. A recent study by John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, showed that AI has an overwhelmingly leftwing bias concerning guns, gun control and crime. According to … Read more
Working on a website, even one as basic as TTAG, you rely on a lot of different technology to create and share information. One useful tool for many collaborators is a site called WeTransfer, which allows you, for free, to upload and transfer large files such as multiple images to a person rather than risking … Read more
Back in the 1990s when I worked for NRA’s Publications Department, it was my job as a young editor to go through hundreds of envelopes we received each month in the mail and review the newspaper clippings inside about encounters where citizens used firearms to defend themselves, their homes, their families and other innocents. I … Read more
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