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AZJonnie

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1. If you gave an AI a shit-ton of real (and recent) polling data, it could do a good job of aggregating it and coming up

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Sat Aug 23, 2025, 02:18 PM

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with some reasonably accurate insights for you (in fact I'm certain it's already used that way), but using it in this way, where AI is taking the poll? That seems pretty silly.

At least, for now

Hopefully this type of thing is just for research purposes and nobody plans on releasing them publicly, unless it's made very clear to any reader that the results are completely made up by AI. With a clear disclaimer of 'for entertainment purposes only'.

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Political Pollsters Are Trying to Save Money by Polling AI Instead of Real People, and It's Going About as Well as You'd [View all] Peacetrain Saturday OP

If you gave an AI a shit-ton of real (and recent) polling data, it could do a good job of aggregating it and coming up AZJonnie Saturday #1

I don't think that's even true Diraven Saturday #4

If you purposefully teach an LLM all the rules of statistics and labeled all the numbers you gave it to process properly AZJonnie Saturday #6

Nope Metaphorical Saturday #7

"Google And Pollster Scott Rasmussen Will Use AI To Survey Americans' Political Views" Wiz Imp Saturday #2

AI is only as good as.... TnDem Saturday #3

Here's why this is so dangerous Diraven Saturday #5