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This stuff comes from a sincere place. How successful they will be is something else. What is the theory for how elections are won and lost? Someone tell me s

This stuff comes from a sincere place. How successful they will be is something else. What is the theory for how elections are won and lost? Someone tell me so I can run a campaign and win. Surely it's not a bunch of reactive stuff. Without a firm idea, the use of generative AI will be unanticipated. My opinion: 2024 cycle will still be run and won by legitimate campaigns in the US. That means generatively personalizing marketing messages - imagine a specific e-mail based on stuff gleaned from your voter profile, illustrated a fake shot of Joe Biden giving a talk in your local cafe, so donate for him to come visit your town on his campaign... Maybe this is what they call scaled influence campaigns, which sounds nefarious, but in reality, it's just better advertising. And just like politicians agitate tech monopolies while in the same breath spending millions of dollars on Meta and TikTok ads, so too will OpenAI work closely with campaigns to define the line of acceptable use to be whatever the fuck it is that gets OpenAI's people elected.

tenebrisalietum 3y ago
> What is the theory for how elections are won and lost? A friend of mine says this: "Over a number of decades, A) foment tribal conflict and affiliation, B) do not enable any social safety nets, and C) do not interfere with freedom of movement. What happens is this: D) political affiliations become more and more bonded to physical location. After a time, to win an election, simply be the right party and say the same things you did to achieve A. If you fail, D isn't completed or the physical location is too large." I don't know whether my friend is smart or stupid.
jprete 3y ago
I expect that the people directly involved in protecting elections are sincerely concerned, and almost no-one else is. > so too will OpenAI work closely with campaigns to define the line of acceptable use to be whatever the fuck it is that gets OpenAI's people elected I don't consider it a conflict of interest for candidates to advertise on tech platforms. Politics is not that pure, trying to make it that pure is quite damaging because everything becomes an existential power fight. But it would be very damaging to peoples' faith in the system for a corporation to create tools that are perceived as extremely powerful, then use them as a lever for political power.

tenebrisalietum 3y ago

> What is the theory for how elections are won and lost? A friend of mine says this: "Over a number of decades, A) foment tribal conflict and affiliation, B) do not enable any social safety nets, and C) do not interfere with freedom of movement. What happens is this: D) political affiliations become more and more bonded to physical location. After a time, to win an election, simply be the right party and say the same things you did to achieve A. If you fail, D isn't completed or the physical location is too large." I don't know whether my friend is smart or stupid.

jprete 3y ago

I expect that the people directly involved in protecting elections are sincerely concerned, and almost no-one else is. > so too will OpenAI work closely with campaigns to define the line of acceptable use to be whatever the fuck it is that gets OpenAI's people elected I don't consider it a conflict of interest for candidates to advertise on tech platforms. Politics is not that pure, trying to make it that pure is quite damaging because everything becomes an existential power fight. But it would be very damaging to peoples' faith in the system for a corporation to create tools that are perceived as extremely powerful, then use them as a lever for political power.