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Inside the Secretive World of Campaign Ads Funded by "AI" Super PACs (www.bellingcat.com)
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In this year’s elections, LTF’s and PFA’s Super PACs, funded by the "AI" industry heavyweights, have played an outsized role in supporting or opposing candidates through advertising. But as polls show distrust of "AI" crosses party lines, the advertisements that Silicon Valley’s leaders are paying millions of dollars to try to sway the results in their chosen candidates’ favour often do not mention "AI" at all.

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[–] 15 points 5 days ago

They don't need the will of the people if they can push for Republicans and aipac candidates to win

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    [–] 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Wow astroturfing is a new concept that has never happened before! Wow! All these historical examples of the exact same abuse of power was there all along but nobody noticed that it means that the systematic abuse can be prevented with legislation like other nations have! Who could have ever guessed that before when nobody knew not even the ones saying it over and over? This is ground breaking news that the term astroturfing actually existed and was ignored by the politicians that benefit from it! Wow

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    • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    it had the exact opposite effect.

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