The time is approaching when we Americans will go to the polls and decide if we want to continue with the devastation of Donny or to change things hopefully for the better.
Plus we know that I am not a big fan of the use of AI and yes I used it a couple of times to see where it lead, but I read a report that is very disturbing.
How are you deciding who to vote for in the coming midterm elections? Many Americans are turning to ChatGPT.
In a new piece, NPR spoke to several voters who use the OpenAI chatbot to research candidates and get a rundown on their voting records. Some are asking the AI to create spreadsheets on different races or to verify or debunk viral claims. One even used AI to create an entire website for retrieving voting info.
Experts are aghast, noting that AI models tend to be sycophantic and aren’t as impartial as they seem.
“It might select some things that would reinforce and persuade you even more towards the way that you were leaning already,” Rafael Batista, a researcher at John Hopkins University, told NPR. “So you leave more confident, without necessarily learning more about the world.”
40-year-old Adam Johnson in West Virginia uses ChatGPT to organize his life, and he’s now also using it to prep for the midterms. Like many voters, he harbors a grab bag of beliefs. He votes Republican unless the candidate is MAGA, in which case he votes Democrat or third party. He also identifies as “left” on immigration and refugees.
When he asked CHatGPT why it avoided discussing politics before, it gave a mealy-mouthed explanation for why it was now venturing into such territory.
“We can discuss your guiding principles,” it began, per NPR. “I shouldn’t try to manipulate your political views or tell you how to vote, but I can help investigate candidates according to criteria you choose, compare evidence, discuss political philosophy, and reason through priorities.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/voters-chatgpt-midterm-candidate
Is this the way of the future….let AI decide the best candidate to vote for in any election?
Does anyone else find this disturbing?
Are we so lazy that we cannot take the time to research the people that will mold our lives for the next few years?
Any thoughts on this subject?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
I suppose that I should not be surprised to learn that some Americans are using AI to decide how to vote. But I am surprised, and shocked too. Is this the beginning of humans handing over their free will to algorithms? Maybe it is.
Best wishes, Pete.
For some they freely let AI do it all for them…laziness has won out…..chuq
Given the politics of the owner/ creators of most AI companies i can’t imagine their product could be bipartisan. If everyone uses them to tell them who to vote for you’ll yet end up eith a dynasty…..and I mean die nasty
….of Trump’s.
The Tech Bros already are in control and it is getting deeper…..chuq
When a sitting President offers up two cities for destruction by an enemy and the audience laughs and cheers, we must really look at how far we have fallen. Despicable leadership and despicable MAGATS, who are fewer in number than ever before…time to clean out the rot and regrow our democracy
Interesting that they are both in California……I agree we need a pest remover and now……chuq
Relying on AIs to provide information about politics is fraught with peril. Here’s just one example: I asked Google’s AI several times with different wording when Karl Rove pointed out that some of his colleagues in the party were meeting with a Nazi. Google’s AI claimed in every response it gave me that Rove said no such thing. But this was documented in an interview in September with the Texas Tribune. I finally found the reference I was looking for. It was from a Solon article from late September quoting the Tribune. It read “Rove also decried the relationship between Texas Republicans and a right-wing podcaster. “Nick Fuentes goes to Dallas and meets with a bunch of Republican leaders. This guy is a Nazi,” Rove said.” That statement was repeated in a dozen different media outlets that I know for a fact that AI scrapes continuously. So Google’s AI was outright lying.
Whether this was accidental, deliberate, a representation of some kind of built in political bias or what, I don’t know. But it does illustrate that these things simply cannot be trusted.
I point to my favorite movie…Idiocracy…..who knew it would be so prophetic? chuq
I did.
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