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Well, what's wrong with it? Compared to any other profit driven source of information we usually let guide us?

Democracy is founded on the principle that people either think about what's best for their community, or at the very least themselves, when voting.

Remove the thinking aspect and there's no real point to democracy. Just let the companies that run the AI companies pick who runs the country so we don't waste time and money on the theater of an election.

Most voters don’t think for themselves, they go along with whatever views are fashionable in their social circles and media. That’s not a good thing but asking an LLM who to vote for isn’t any worse than asking a newspaper.

But were people thinking more when getting their political insights from magazines or newspapers or podcasts, blogs, the sides of buses?

>We spent the last N years letting *profit driven media* decide everything.

What do you think "AI" is? Though it has the potential to be even more influential due to its ability to gaslight at scale asynchronously while sitting behind the brand of "intelligence".

I didn't assert that it's any different, I asked what the matter was with this that wasn't previously the matter. You were quite quick with your quotation, I actually edited my comment to make this clearer.

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