Article
No Real People Were Polled: AI Is Now Fabricating What "The Public Thinks"
No Real People Were Polled: AI Is Now Fabricating What "The Public Thinks"
The other day Axios ran a piece that cited "findings" that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. Turns out, those "findings" were completely fabricated by a company called Aaru - using AI (causing Axios to issue an editor's note and 'clarification')Aaru uses something they call "silicon sampling," where large language models (the AI) can emulate humans at a fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling, the NY Times reports.
Silicon sampling isn’t polling. It is the outright fabrication of public opinion by...
aboutLiberty Portal
Liberty Portal is your gateway for free markets and free thinking. We aggregate open-sourced content to promote and popularize important people and lessons within the liberty movement.
suggested
Apr 29, 2026 / Notypist
Is This A Sign That The Schumer Era Is Coming To An End?
Is This A Sign That The Schumer Era Is Coming To An End?
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spent months cultivating what appeared to be a solid roster of Democratic recruits for 2026. He cleared the field in Ohio, North Carolina, and Alaska — all states where flipping the seats would be a major victory for the Democrats and potentially hand them a majority in the upper chamber in a year with an otherwise brutal map for their party.
But in the races that may ultimately define Democratic fortunes this November,...
Read more
May 20, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Several States Contest Federal Orders Keeping Coal-Fired Power Plants Open
Several States Contest Federal Orders Keeping Coal-Fired Power Plants Open
Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A three-judge federal appeals panel is expected to issue a decision by year’s end on a lawsuit challenging Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s May 2025 emergency order that prevented a Michigan utility from closing a 64-year-old coal-fired power plant.
The R.M. Schahfer Generating Station’s two-coal fired electricity generators in Wheatfield, Indiana, built in 1983 and 1986, were scheduled to close on Dec. 31, 2025, but remain operating under emergency orders issued by Energy...
Read more
May 23, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Delivery Hero Confirms Uber's Takeover Bid In Push For Global Food-Delivery Empire
Delivery Hero Confirms Uber's Takeover Bid In Push For Global Food-Delivery Empire
Summary:
Delivery Hero Confirms 33 Euro Takeover Bid
Uber Speculation of Delivery Hero Takeover
Uber Builds Large Stake in Delivery Hero
Delivery Hero Confirms Takeover Bid
Delivery Hero has confirmed that Uber has proposed buying the German food delivery company for 33 euros per share, in line with earlier takeover reports.
Following today’s press publication, Delivery Hero SE confirms that Uber Technologies, Inc. reached out with an indicative proposal of €33 per share in respect of a potential takeover offer to all shareholders of...
Read more




