Just saw an article again saying AI will play a role in this election. (I’ve seen a dozen similar to it before this one.)
And while AI may affect certain industries and other things I can’t even imagine, what I can speak about is politics.
And it just hit me. I don't believe it will play that big a role.
Why?
Because AI would only prove powerful when you manipulate something COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to make it believable. For example, here's a flying cow. Or, here’s a video of Biden getting a suitcase full of money from Putin. Clearly, if you had half a brain, you’d say, “Biden has been opposing Putin hard the past four years — no way that’s true.”
I mean, I'm oversimplifying, but if you hear/see something just stupid, it's probably fake. (Whereas if you saw Trump walking into the changing rooms of young women in a grainy video from about ten years ago, you have every right to believe it.)
But that's why I'm suddenly not worried about AI.
BECAUSE WE'VE LITERALLY BEEN DEALING WITH THIS SINCE AT LEAST 2008 WHEN OBAMA WAS ELECTED.
Dishonest, dishonorable Republican fringe voices have been telling their supporters that Obama was this Terrorist Muslim from Kenya (without a birth certificate) who was going to turn the country into an Islamic State and destroy it from within for like EVER. And that he was ACTUALLY married to a man, because they think Michelle Obama was actually a man.
This is exceptionally sick stuff before we had any idea what AI even was. And seriously, how much MORE could you mar someone’s character?
Years later, when it was Hillary's turn, it was email server, her husband’s a sleaze (while Trump wasn’t, somehow— huh?), and her health was SOOOO bad...
Like, seriously guys.
The uninformed rubes are going to believe outlandish stuff no matter what.
So, yeah, there will be videos showing Biden is actually in a coma with some robot fake operating as him. Or there will be a video of Biden making out with an alien, who’s a man, while a sign behind them that says there are little kids being kept hostage in the basement of the White House.
We get it. We know the foolish lies they are going to spread.
And the truth is a WHOLE bunch of idiots are going to believe it. Same way many believed Trump was some great businessman.
But these same folks were losing their minds over tan suits (unless their man wore them).
AI isn’t going to change under-informed people believing the absolutely most hysterical things.
So, just breathe and keep moving.
Ignore the hysterics and fear.
Organize.
Have faith.
And prepare to smash the GOP in the voting booth this year so that they lose worse than they ever have.
These heartless GOP “leaders” have been abandoning Ukraine for more than three months now (since November).
They don’t deserve an ounce of power. And it’s going to take a lot more than AI to save them this year.
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Amen to that.