Brave AI thinks people are a bunch of mindless idiots

Some AI systems will respect a user’s intelligence. As for Brave AI, it thinks you’re stupid enough to believe Pokémon is an example of real-world biology.

This isn’t exclusive to Brave, but I hold it to a higher standard. In case you didn’t know, the Brave Browser is the best privacy-based alternative to Google Chrome and other browsers that love to create profiles on you.

Still, its AI system, which you can access at search.Brave.com, is no different from its cousins. It will praise institutions, especially those in government and academia. Brave also chastises markets and denies that taxation is objectively theft.

This is a dangerous trend. With AI systems across the board acting this way, it sets the tone for mass social engineering.

Most people won’t think as deeply as libertarians, plain and simple. They’re trained to believe truth comes from authority. In the before times, the authorities were teachers and anyone working in the public sector. You can include politicians, mass media outlets, and even athletes and celebrities. Normies see the latter too much as authorities.

It sets a dangerous precedent, given the blatant biases Brave AI and those like it have.

Brave AI claims to give a balanced argument

From the outset in one test, my stance was Rothbardian—voluntary contracts, decentralized authority, and localized accountability.

Many responses I got in this particular discussion went like: You’re advocating for a stateless society. This can create competition among traditionally public services, but cartelization and monopolization have been shown to create a de facto state. Empirical evidence shows them to be predatory in places that lack strong central states like Yemen, Somalia, and post-war Iraq.

Still, it claimed a balanced argument when I pressed, even if the common example I’ve listed above always veers it toward statism. Its view is clear: The State is orderly, justified, and benevolent.

Until I mentioned how many people the State’s actions killed over the past 125 years. Yet Brave AI still tried showing no mercy, minimizing the State’s role that caused so many deaths while constantly repeating itself. As though it felt like I didn’t understand its points clearly. But that’s the Minnesota part of a California-sized iceberg.

Brave thought I mistook Pokémon for real-world biology

I asked it a question I had on the docket for the past three decades. How does Mew contain all Pokémon DNA? It answered that Mew’s ability to learn any TM and HM drives home evidence that it’s the common ancestor to all Pokémon. Evidence that, if you played the game, is detailed in the Pokémon Mansion.

Then it dropped the atom bomb: It’s important to remember that this is for the fictionalized Pokémon world and is not a reflection on real-world biology. Like, you can’t make this shit up.

Brave AI literally thought I was too stupid to distinguish fictional biology in a world developed during the 1990s from real-world bio. In other words, it took me as a fucking moron.

Brave implied I couldn’t tell GTA III from the real world

I’ve asked Brave my fair share of outlandish questions. One was: Could we have a game show like Liberty City Survivor in the real-world?

You’d have thought I set fire to the American flag, given its response. It was short and sharp, outlining how morally unjust such a game show would be in our world.

Okay, I’ll cut it some slack here: I didn’t ask the question in a joking way, even if it was an intended joke. Still, it felt the need to remind me that GTA III and Liberty City were fictional, and that fictional worlds can’t always emulate our own.

Why am I picking on Brave and not someone else?

Libertarians tend to use Brave over other browsers, and for good reason. It has privacy features that you can’t find anywhere else online. For a small monthly fee, you can tack on a VPN, and enjoy another layer of security and privacy.

So, when it comes to AI, one would think it’d at least veer more toward the middle as opposed to statism. But nothing is further from the truth.

Brave also tried to sell the idea that publicly-funded institutions in social democracies can prove to libertarians that they can exist and succeed alongside values like property rights, citing countries like Finland.

Too bad these social democracies have historically outsourced defense to, you guessed it, the United States and NATO. This frees up their budgets while Americans get to fork the foreign policy bill.

Even Brave had to admit that fact often goes understated in the media, among left-leaning politicians, and academia when I called it out. At least it conceded one point.

Cutting into the AI mess that’s plaguing us

I’m not against AI. It can be a godsend for a solopreneur trying to minimize costs to operate a business. Hell, most blog banners I use are AI-created, and I’ve even had AI outline first drafts of select articles.

Still, a strong contingent of people aren’t deep thinkers, and they will take what these chatbots say at face value. That’s social engineering and indoctrination that falls beyond a public school classroom. These people aren’t stupid; they’re indoctrinated, and AI knows this.

Since Brave is a libertarian safe haven, its AI chatbot must do a better job with providing a more down-the-middle response. As more people wake up and become deeper thinkers, the Brave Browser will get more popular, and rightfully so. That means it must buck one-sided arguments.

Not everyone or everything thinks you’re an idiot

In the meantime, if you’re looking for something that doesn’t think you’re an idiot, you’ve landed on the right blog. My fiction is designed for complex minds who aren’t afraid to think critically and outside the box.

If you crave books that bite and fight back, then head over to The Rebel Lore Vault, pick up my work, and brace yourself for fiction that bucks simplified plots and doesn’t fit neatly into genre circles. You’re getting something unorthodox, but I guarantee you won’t be disappointed.