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the point is not what ai does.

the point is how bad actors use ai to manipulate voters and thus corrupt the very foundation of our society.

images and texts create emotions and those emotions in the electorate is what bad actors are after.

just look at the pope in that Prada style coat.

so how do we in a world with ai generated content navigate "truth" and "trust" and shared understanding of "reality"?

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That ship sailed with social media.

before ai, malicious content creation and malicious content quality were limiting factors.

for malicious content creation, large models like chatgpt are a game changer.

I'm not sure you've seen the scale achievable by modern "social media marketing" firms. Copywriters are so cheap and good at writing posts that the marginal cost of an astroturfing bot in a place like Reddit or Twitter is almost $0 before LLMs. LLMs just reduce the cost a little bit more.

How is that different from Bernie Sanders effectively brainwashing an entire generation that communism is good?

Looks like somebody is confusing communism with socialism.

Bernie is looking for workers and elected-union-leaders to own the means of production. That is as good as communism

co-ops are a thing, as ownership structure in capitalism. some of them are fairly successful.

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