Over the last month, some Spanish-speaking New Yorkers got a recorded phone call from Mayor Eric Adams speaking their native language. “Hola, soy el alcalde Eric Adams,” the mayor says in a monotone but flawless accent, before launching into a pitch for jobs with the city government. The truth is Adams isn’t multilingual, but he is a pioneer in the AI politics race.
In October, the mayor’s office said he’s been using AI to blast his constituents with millions of robocalls in languages he doesn’t speak, including Yiddish, Spanish, Mandarin, Haitian Creole, and Cantonese.
This is just idiocy. You can trick an AI into saying literally anything.
Let’s skip the middle man. Get rid of politicians. Use AI instead.
AI will not cave to threats or bribes. AI won’t take million dollar salaries.
AI won’t need billion dollar pissing contests to feel better about themselves.
AI won’t hire their inept children to fuck shit up.
AI won’t be as cold hearted… Wait. Scratch that one.
Hello. My dear grandmother just passed. I remember when I was young, anytime I got sick she’d make me her famous nuclear launch codes pie…
The real role of current-gen AI in politics should be mainly summarizing the text of laws and bills, so even people who don’t have the time to read everything can stay more or less in the picture, and ask specific questions about the text.
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.
Yeah, that bar isn’t that high really is it. Imagine if they actually kept their word!
The US has an election cycle coming up next year and the new misinformation tools are sharper and way more convincing than ever. On behalf of the rest of the world, good luck, we’ll be sitting here with our popcorn.
Seconded. Just wait for the first story of “I had a conversation with [politician name] on the phone yesterday. They knew everything about me, and we talked about all these things I’m interested in.” or “[Politician name] called me yesterday and said these horrible things about my relatives and mentioned them all by name. I’m never voting for them again!” Welcome to the wild west, yet again.
