We're seriously fuckin' doomed, as a species. All the morons are outsourcing their decision making to people who've learned to game the system exclusively for profit.

At least they're not asking grok.

ugh. but they probably are, aren't they?

I cannot imagine someone not being VERY sure how to vote in this next American election.

Facebook in one ear and chatgpt in the other. We are doomed.

That's so smart. You don't have to do any thinking. Pretty soon all thought will be eliminated and AI can tell us how to do everything from how to tie our shoes to how to structure our society. That way we just do what we're told and can be ruled by a handful of billionaires. Smart. /S

What could possibly go wrong.

They are also asking AI to do their grocery list. As i had the pleasure of learning just recently on reddit, when this was posted there.

Ballot language is crafted to be intentionally misleading and political ads are nothing but hyperbole bullshit.

God, these people are not capable of rational thought.

In an ideal world where it still exists it would just give them approved links to the candidates policies and voting history but we all know that's not what's happening.

Some candidates just don't have a lot of public information available about them. Relying on their campaign page alone can tell you which audience they're trying to get votes from, but it doesn't always line up with how they'll actually act.

There are varying degrees of bad to good ways of utilizing LLMs for something like this.

The worst way is to just straight up ask it who to vote for. I doubt this is how it's being used. Most likely people are telling it what kind of political views they hold and then asking which candidate supports those views. Still a terrible way to handle the situation since it's not hard for an LLM to hallucinate information, especially when candidates have similar names to others in its training.

Having a long political chat with a non-local LLM is a quick way to let companies create a political profile on all of their users.

One good way would be to use a locally run LLM, provide a bunch of source material (every bill they've written/sponsored), and ask it to find evidence that a candidate supports particular viewpoints. Ask it to point directly to where in the source material that reinforces/conflicts with those viewpoints. Then double check the flagged source material for accuracy.

I’ll admit I am a little stumped myself. Do I vote against republicans early or wait until voting day? What’s going to be harder for them to steal?

On the last election in my country, I've visited tents set by 10 different political parties that are entering the election just to see how would they try to convince me, if I went to them as an uncertain voter that's warm to their party. It was a genuine eye-opener regarding what these parties do to influence uncertain voters which especially matters in my country because on polls, people that are uncertain make up %12-16, which will tip elections exactly when it matters.

3 parties instantly tried to recruit me as a party member within the first minute, 5 parties we actually had a discussion that 2 of which had a roadmap they could present right there, 2 parties treated it as a gift merch with their names on to boost their visibility operation, on one party the dude there had no idea what their ideology is and just said "trust me man this dude is solid. Vote him", one party just badmouthed an opposing party in the whole discussion and didn't mention a single thing they would improve.

No amount of AI could give that amount of representation I got right there.

....never stop proving you are the stupidest fucking people in the whole world america

Is this not what it was designed for?

For anybody looking for a good resource: Ballotpedia is pretty good

I actually don't hate this concept as long as you verify (don't blindly trust) all the info it gives you.

The reason I say this?

Many local races, especially in "purple" areas can be super ambiguous. Candidates will circulate mailers and ads painting themselves as "pro economy, pro schools, and pro puppy" because they are trying to be vanilla AF and appeal to everyone. Their websites often list a few generic issues and that's it.

AI might actually be useful to summarize major issues, actions, and voting record of the incumbent while collating information about a challenger candidate from other sources.

Local TV tends to be dogshit at their coverage of candidates actual plans and positions but you could also try that, if all else fails. Or maybe find a YouTube video of a debate (if there is one for the office in question) and have the AI give you a bullet point summary.

I'll play devil's advocate here and say that for people who use AI to make this decision, it's going to make them decide better.