Fast Takes: John Boltons real crime, AIs dark take on US history and more

“President Trump may hate being the target of lawfare, but he sure knows how to wield it against anyone who crosses him,” snipe The Wall Street Journal’s editors.Consider “John Bolton, his former national security adviser,” now taking “a plea deal essentially for the sin of writing a critical book about his time advising Mr.

Trump.” The charges aren’t about taking any documents, but “for keeping diary notes on a home computer that included ‘national defense information.’” Bolton will “plead guilty to a single felony count for retaining classified information” and “pay a $2.5 million fine,” easily consuming any profits from the book.The Trump Justice Department wanted him to “go to prison” — though he surely wouldn’t “have been prosecuted had he written a book that was favorable to Donald Trump.”As America approaches its 250th, anyone relying on AI to learn about the nation’s founding will “encounter a history that does not celebrate the brilliance and bravery of the colonists,” warns Liz Peek at The Hill.

Asking Anthropic or ChatGPT can “lead down a dark tunnel of negativity,” and ruin “the American story for generations to come.” Ask them why, and these AI will admit to offering an account “heavier on failure, guilt and conflict than on courage, sacrifice and triumph.” AI models “are trained on material readily available on the internet,” which is “an information flow ..

.dominated by liberal media.” Schools with “leftist faculties” and the Web’s general negativity teach AI to undermine “confidence and pride in our nation.”CBS-axed Scott Pelley always “was a high paid propagandist masquerading as a journalist,” thunders Brianna Lyman at The Federalist.

His recent lowlights include “a 2019 interview with Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director who leaked information to the Wall Street Journal and then lied about it under oath multiple times,” where Pelley “accepted Mc...