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Diraven

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5. Here's why this is so dangerous

Reply to Peacetrain (Original post)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 04:06 PM

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The #1 thing the AI companies are working on now is training their models to convincingly promote lies and propaganda. Because there is enormous money to be made selling AI with that kind of capability to oppressive governments and corporations.

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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