Joe Huffman, of Boomershoot, has been playing with AI chatbots by asking them about the event. The inaccurate responses he gets would be amusing, if people weren’t actually trying to implement AI in real-world, life-affecting applications. His latest report inspired me to ask Gab AI about The Zelman Partisans.
Tell me about the pro-gun group called The Zelman Partisans
The Zelman Partisans is a pro-gun group that promotes Second Amendment rights and advocates for the use of firearms for self-defense.
So far, so good. Um, wait…
The group’s name is a reference to the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in the British Mandate of Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s.
What? The name is a reference to Aaron Zelman, hence the “Zelman” in the name.
The Zelman Partisans was founded in 1994 by Rabbi R. Mermelstein…
Not even close. Try 2014 (only off by twenty years, AS bot), by the late Alperts, Shelia, Eric, and Claire.
… a gun rights activist who believed that firearms are essential for personal protection and the defense of communities. The group’s mission is to educate and empower individuals to exercise their Second Amendment rights and to promote responsible gun ownership.
Okay. That “responsible” bugs me a bit.
The Zelman Partisans is active in the United States and advocates for gun rights at both the state and federal levels.
We’re more of a educational advocate group than activist advocates, as that somewhat implies.
The group has been involved in various legal battles to protect and expand Second Amendment rights, including a successful lawsuit against the City of Chicago over its handgun ban.
That’s news to me. As a group, we haven’t been directly involved in any lawsuits (some of my individual work at TZP has been cited in federal lawsuits). And the “Chicago handgun ban” was settled (officially) in 2010 in McDonald v. City of Chicago, years before TZP was formed.
The Zelman Partisans is not affiliated with any political party or ideology, and its members come from diverse backgrounds. The group’s focus is on promoting the responsible use of firearms for self-defense and the defense of communities, rather than advocating for any particular political agenda.
A quibble, since “responsible” use of firearms has been bent by anti-rights types to mean “regulated, restricted, and demonized use of firearms, with hell to pay if you do.”
Just for fun, I also asked Gab AI about myself. Apparently I died in childhood… after fighting the Winter War in Finland and writing several novels.
I’m almost afraid to see what Google’s AI would say.
It turns out Google’s Gemini is better. It admits that its still learning about TZP and says nothing else.
