Then again, politics is already mired in slimy rhetoric so this probably won't be a cataclysmic change. We already have a few tools to deal with it. AI Debates could be cool. Are cool -- the evidence that convinced me LLMs were special was going on character.ai and pitting a Marx and Hayek character against each other. That was a fun debate with helpful AIs but it would still be a fun debate with rhetorical AIs.
I would love to have an LLM that could respond to any position I gave it from the viewpoint of both Bernie Sanders and a Romney/Bush/WSJ conservative angle.
Whatever the Republican Party overall these days is, it ain’t conservative. On a side note, I do have to give a shout out to my Republican governor Kemp of Georgia, somehow he has managed to stay true to what I would expect from a conservative governor.
I’m not trying to criticize any Democratic governor. I’ve lived in GA all of my life until last year and I don’t follow state politics outside of Ga and FL where I now live (and I won’t open that can of worms)
https://www.fcc.gov/rules-political-campaign-calls-and-texts
> if the message’s sender does not use autodialing technology to send such texts and instead manually dials them.
So, there's definitely not enough here to suggest that it's in violation.
Related, what does "manually dial" even mean? A button that changes to the next number each time you tap it? Tapping an entry in a contact? A single "Call" button that enables when a phone line, in the queue of hundreds, is free?
I suppose that would be legal.
A bot pretending to be a human for the purposes of political persuasion is a crime in California.
"Hi, I'm Liz working to elect Ron DeSantis. Do you have a minute to answer a couple of questions?"
I've never heard of this. I assume the actual crime is in a human being setting up such a bot, since a bot cannot commit a crime?
Yes, they were: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/politics/desantis-deep...
This is one of the serious main use-cases I've heard discussed. The idea is typically to add a customer support chat bot to an existing website/app that is knowledgable about the brand. Because you wouldn't want your customer support rep. suggesting alternative brands (or worse), you instruct it to only discuss certain subjects.
DeSantis bot: Biden is a pedophile and asylum-seekers are all MS-13 members
DeSantis campaign: Oops that was our bot, not us!
Rinse and repeat
Fact Check False: Joe Biden reportedly showered with his daughter in a way she described as "inappropriate" while she was a adolescent, so he engaged in mere hebephilia and is not a pedophile. Also only some asylum seekers are involved in organized crime, not all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lVBp2XjWsg
(I had written a tl.dw. but I decided to remove it as I didn't feel I managed to capture the essence of the talk.)
[0] https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/6f4f7b30129b0251f61fa7baaa8...
For political consultants it is a cash cow.
To me, this looks like a consultant selling the campaign on 'AI engagement' or something like that and fulfilling their contract with this garbage.
I'm happy to believe the author's account, but I'm curious how widespread this might be. I'd also like to know if this actually came from some group associated with DeSantis, as opposed to a fan who can glue together APIs or another campaign trying to generate bad publicity for a rival.
Especially if they are isolated/lonely... Maybe it would provide some nice conversation.
Likewise, an LLM that refuses to play on the first go, does budge with the same prompt but with some appendages.
