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> Dean.Bot, which could converse with voters in real-time through a website, was an early use of an emerging technology that researchers have said could cause s
by defen 3y ago
> Dean.Bot, which could converse with voters in real-time through a website, was an early use of an emerging technology that researchers have said could cause significant harm to elections.
Goodness, imagine if people vote for the wrong candidates! How would democracy recover from that?
- ceejayoz 3y agoThe recovery can look like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
- Spivak 3y agoI can't really fault them for hard banning anything to do with politics given that "propaganda but tailored to the individual, is reasonably articulate, and it scales!" is one of the things that might earn this technology heavy restrictions and they don't want any more attention on them than they already have. I'm surprised that a forum of technologists doesn't even attempt to see the somewhat accidental strings that allow society to run efficiently as somewhat trusting with a cheap bullshit detector. If you break that down everything grinds to a halt.
- koolba 3y agoHa! I’m sure they’re fine with anything that purely encourages voting. As long as the right folks are the ones being encouraged.
- ravenstine 3y agoIt's propaganda when we don't like it, and a civil duty when we do!
- defen 3y agoSo they should just say "we're worried about our reputation" rather than say it's a threat to democracy. Why is push-polling not a "threat to democracy"? How about emotionally manipulative imagery in television ads? Or use of detailed demographic, geographic, and purchasing information for ad targeting?