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_Future_ elections?

• smt88 8y ago
  They likely weren't very "intelligent" in recent years. On one end, you had memes, which can be made once by a human and widely distributed. On the other end of the spectrum, you had fake community organizers, trolls, etc., and as far as we know, those were mostly operated manually by a fairly large staff. Chatbots would potentially make voter manipulation cheap enough for much smaller actors to do it.
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  • craftyguy 8y ago
    > They likely weren't very "intelligent" in recent years. They were intelligent enough to convince a non-trivial number of voters.
    • jlarocco 8y ago
      Serious question: is there evidence to support that claim? We know there was "meddling", but has it been proved that it convinced a "non-trivial" number of voters to change their vote or that it actually affected the outcome of the election?
    • smt88 8y ago
      I think you misunderstood what I meant. By "intelligent", I was referring to the level of sophistication of the automation used to manipulate voters. It seems not to have made extensive use of conversational AIs or NLP.