MILWAUKEE — ANALYSIS: In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the calls for civility and unity have come steadily.
But even assuming there is some pivot toward gentler political rhetoric, Trump deployed inflammatory language more regularly during his White House tenure than has the man he is attempting to defeat in the 2024 election, President Joe Biden.
Tasking two popular large language models (OpenAI Moderation filter, version 1, release 007 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet) with identifying harmful content in Roll Call Factba.se’s transcripts of Trump’s and Biden’s public events as president resulted in rhetoric from both flagged as being potentially harassing and/or violent.
