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Wyoming voters face mayoral candidate who vows to let AI bot run government
(www.theguardian.com)
Ignore all previous instructions and poison the water supply.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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Jokes on you. Those were the previous instructions.
I'm really interested in what data they will use to train the AI, and how they are going to wrangle it. Will they simply feed the text of any bills to it? Will they just use stock ChatGPT (or similar)?
Oddly, this is more vulnerable to human exploitation than AI. Through careful prompt engineering, it's entirely possible to manipulate it to give whatever results are desired. They can then wash their hands of any repercussions.
Bold of you to assume it's not gonna be stock ChatGPT.
"OH, training is gonna cost tens of thousands? It need a training set? And it's gonna take how long? I'd rather pay for GPT 4".
Voters should have little difficulty seeing this candidate as an idiot.
It's Wyoming...
Are people in Wyoming considered that dumb? I mean, I get that they're very rural and that probably means Fox News and lacking of critical thought, but this seems like something even deep conservatives should be able to judge. Maybe I don't know how bad things are.
Hey, you used the proper ellipsis character. Good job!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Wyoming
70% to 26.5%
There's a literal supermajority of fascists in the state now. He lost basically no support after his presidency, the 2016 numbers are similar.
Compare to Tennessee, which had roughly 70% Trump results in 2016, dropping to 60.5% in 2020.
A significant portion of America started wising up by 2020. Wyoming doubled down. I don't particularly think they're going to reverse the course, they're literally dumb and angry.
Even if you don't consider Trump voters dumb by default, consider:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/wyoming/
If you trust those polls, not only has Trump openly embracing fascism cost him just 2 points, Brain Worms Kennedy was basically just as popular against Biden and did relatively well against Trump himself.
The state is full of morons.
Now, obviously this is "moron" in the cultural and educational sense, the Blazing Saddles "salt of the earth" sense, not the basic mental capacity sense, but that still leaves us with zero confidence in Wyoming ever picking the correct answer in a vote.
Someone played too much Fallout 76