Good evening!

Welcome to Would I Lie To You - a show where sometimes dishonesty is the best policy.

On Lee Mack's team tonight:

A language model making its WILTY debut, it's #chatGPT!

And a corporate rip off born with denial, it's #microsoft #BingChat!

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Now let's see David Mitchell's sanity being shred to pieces.

And so do ours.

#Sycophancy #sandbagging #LLM #AI #BritishTV #UKTV

WaPo: In a Hong Kong courtroom, freedom itself is on trial

Very well written explainer. I would only suggest a couple of adjustments:

"China’s Communist Party and its minions who run Hong Kong cannot stand the sight of people expressing their preferences for who should lead them."

--> "... preferences for who should *represent* them."

"...electoral rules were changed so that only those loyal to China were allowed to run for office."

--> "..only those loyal to *the never-elected CCP dictatorship* were allowed..." (many of the jailed were pro-China but anti-dictatorship)

Isn't the question now that #HongKong's civil liberties and "#Hongkongers ruling Hong Kong" have been eradicated, *why* should democracies continue treating that "#CCP's banking colony" as legally and financially separate territory from the #PRC?

What always happens when crime pays?

#china #Taiwan #autocracy #dictatorship #appeasement #sycophancy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/12/hong-kong-democracy-on-trial/

@arstechnica

"#SpaceX says it blocked #Ukraine from using #Starlink with military drones"

Lovely how #elonmusk finds some idle workforce to fix *that* horrible problem — #Ukrainians trying to keep the invading #russian hordes at bay.

#putin #sycophancy #ukrainewar

@IanMoore3000 😂 Love that #shill word, tis not often used these days, so I must use it more...apparently it may have originated c. 1900 from #Shillaber, meaning carnival #Huckster or similar and I am a regular user of the #H word esp when requiring synonyms for the #Trump person who I am hoping is a dying species, despite numerous progeny--they too suffer from the #GOP #Republican #Defunding of #Education and staunch support of #Sycophancy. 😍

"Twittering About Twitter By A Former Twitter Engineer", Mark Chu-Carroll (http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2022/12/09/twittering-about-twitter-by-a-former-twitter-engineer/).

#Twitter #Elon #ElonMusk #Arrogance #Sycophancy #Idiocy #Stupidity #ToxicBosses

Looks like competition for August''s #BrownNoseOfTheMonth is really hotting up!

#PrincePhilip #DukeofEdinburgh #sycophancy https://t.co/OCWfShK5qd

> .. #BritishMonarchy.. the persistence of.. #OldRegime.. excerpts from #TomNairn’s The #EnchantedGlass.. offer a republican antidote to Jubilee kitsch and state-sponsored #sycophancy..
> We see two contradictory views.. of #Monarchy.. it is all-important, and of no real importance.. capable of provoking a nation-wide taboo, frothing hysteria and death-threats is also an innocent, prettily-staged ceremonial no serious #British intellect need worry about.
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5364-the-sociology-of-grovelling
#TomNairn

RT @GorwayGlobal
@maryashakil @DrTedros Let's hope these so called sources are merely sources of #Sycophancy. If word gets out that #Covaxin approval was thanks to ModiJi's intervention with @WHO's @DrTedros then it'll never sell internationally.

#BorisJohnson’s #sycophancy over #DonaldTrump has diminished Britain, says Nandy | #US news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/johnsons-sycophancy-over-trump-has-diminished-britain-says-nandy

#UK #Politics