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supersquirrel@lemmy.ca to World News@quokk.au · 5 days ago

AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics to Influence Elections, But It's Backfiring

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AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics to Influence Elections, But It's Backfiring

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supersquirrel@lemmy.ca to World News@quokk.au · 5 days ago
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AI billionaires are flooding US elections with money, but their efforts aren't buying the political capital they'd hoped for.
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    The general thrust of the article is just that voters don’t want to vote for someone backed by the LLM industry. Propaganda like you’re describing exists, but this is not it.

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      Ok, maybe not propaganda, but misleading.

      Three quarters of the likely voters said that they would be less apt to vote for a candidate if they found out they had accepted a donation from an AI Super PAC.

      Less apt? Grandpa may hate AI, but that’s not going to stop him from voting for Mike Rogers. These articles create a false sense of victory and that hurts the left.

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        I understand where you’re coming from, thanks.

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        Less apt? Grandpa may hate AI, but that’s not going to stop him from voting for Mike Rogers. These articles create a false sense of victory and that hurts the left.

        Where is your evidence of this?

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          The fact that a criminal, insurrectionist, rapist won a presidential election. No more evidence needed.

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            stole* ☝🏼

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              There’s no concrete evidence that any election was stolen, and until there is you sound just like them.

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                Sorry, here: I’ve done the legwork for you, fellow poor.

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                  This was about the 2016 election, but ok.

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                    I’m not following, considering we wouldn’t be here right now if he hadn’t. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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