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applegrove

(133,030 posts)
Sat Apr 29, 2023, 03:03 PM Apr 2023

How AI is already changing the 2024 election

How AI is already changing the 2024 election

Sophia Cai

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/29/how-ai-already-changing-2024-election

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Zoom in: AI programs are being used for various tasks in just-launched 2024 campaigns, most notably for advertising but also for time-consuming research and office work.

* Immediately after President Biden announced his re-election campaign, the Republican National Committee released an AI-generated video with a series of fictitious images showing a dystopian, chaotic America under a Biden second term.

* The video included scenes from an imaginary Biden and Kamala Harris victory party on election night that contorted their faces and applied ominous shadows throughout.

* Digital firms retained by campaigns are using machine learning to figure out when's best to send text messages to voters, and enlisting AI to quickly identify soundbites from long videos — freeing up staffers and contractors for other work.

* One Democratic pollster told Axios he asked ChatGPT to write a first draft of a gubernatorial candidate's biography, a task that would have taken him about 45 minutes. It took ChatGPT just a few seconds.

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How AI is already changing the 2024 election (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2023 OP
Dems can use those same tools against Repubs. nt intrepidity Apr 2023 #1
Yep. And they NEED to. Sky Jewels Apr 2023 #5
Damn right. Repukes count on Dems being "nice" nt intrepidity Apr 2023 #6
How dystopian.... huh, FirstLight Apr 2023 #2
Yes it gives me the heebie jeebies too. LisaM Apr 2023 #3
Jobs will be lost....................... Lovie777 Apr 2023 #4
 

Sky Jewels

(9,148 posts)
5. Yep. And they NEED to.
Sat Apr 29, 2023, 05:33 PM
Apr 2023

AI freaks me out, but it is here, it is being used widely, and we can't let it become a one-sided weapon.

FirstLight

(15,771 posts)
2. How dystopian.... huh,
Sat Apr 29, 2023, 03:23 PM
Apr 2023

I literally cannot even with this timeline we are living in. It's almost fitting, considering how many of the population are really just sheeple and the AI is like the robots coming for us ... But the insidious beauty of the eventual takeover from the AI overlords, is that they convince us to do it to ourselves.

God, that was dark... lol

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