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I really hope this technology becomes the future of political campaigning. The signage industry which prints billions of posters, plastic lawn signs, and banner

I really hope this technology becomes the future of political campaigning. The signage industry which prints billions of posters, plastic lawn signs, and banners for the post-election landfill needs to be disrupted. These days I get a daily dose of amazement at what a small engineering team is able to accomplish.

qazxcvbnmlp 2y ago
Oh my! How dystopian. “He promised me they wouldn’t support X” “He promised me they would support X” (Dynamically grab and show actions from the candidates past that feed into the individuals viewpoint) Further the disconnect between what the candidate says they do and what they do, meanwhile it will feel like they got your best interests in mind.
- jerf 2y ago
  Heh, I'm not even sure that would change much honestly. If I define a "lie" for the purpose of this post (and nothing else) as "a politician's claim they support a position during election season that they have manifestly not supported during their existing tenure as a politician", even cynical ol' me is a bit shocked by the amount of lying I've seen in this campaign. I'm not even talking about forward lying here about something they won't do for whatever reason once they get into office, I'm talking about their platform incorporating things that they were denouncing a year ago and vigorously voting against.
- primitivesuave 2y ago
  This is already quite common with deepfakes of a politician's voice. While I agree on the potentially dystopian implications of this, it seems like it would be a huge improvement for a politician to put campaign funds into burning a little GPU time on answering specific questions from constituents (i.e. the LLM is reading their stated policy positions and simply delivering a tailored response), rather than wastefully plastering their name all over town.
bpanahij 2y ago
Thanks for these thoughts and compliments. I love the idea of preventing landfill with this tech. Our team is awesome and we really love our customers and all the jobs that can be done with this kind of tech!

qazxcvbnmlp 2y ago

Oh my! How dystopian. “He promised me they wouldn’t support X” “He promised me they would support X” (Dynamically grab and show actions from the candidates past that feed into the individuals viewpoint) Further the disconnect between what the candidate says they do and what they do, meanwhile it will feel like they got your best interests in mind.

jerf 2y ago
Heh, I'm not even sure that would change much honestly. If I define a "lie" for the purpose of this post (and nothing else) as "a politician's claim they support a position during election season that they have manifestly not supported during their existing tenure as a politician", even cynical ol' me is a bit shocked by the amount of lying I've seen in this campaign. I'm not even talking about forward lying here about something they won't do for whatever reason once they get into office, I'm talking about their platform incorporating things that they were denouncing a year ago and vigorously voting against.
primitivesuave 2y ago
This is already quite common with deepfakes of a politician's voice. While I agree on the potentially dystopian implications of this, it seems like it would be a huge improvement for a politician to put campaign funds into burning a little GPU time on answering specific questions from constituents (i.e. the LLM is reading their stated policy positions and simply delivering a tailored response), rather than wastefully plastering their name all over town.

bpanahij 2y ago

Thanks for these thoughts and compliments. I love the idea of preventing landfill with this tech. Our team is awesome and we really love our customers and all the jobs that can be done with this kind of tech!