arstechnica ,
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Wyoming mayoral candidate wants to govern by AI bot

VIC, the bot, will make decisions for the "meat puppet" who shows up at meetings.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/wyoming-mayoral-candidate-wants-to-govern-by-ai-bot/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

RavenLuni ,
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@arstechnica Fuck right off!

neonharbinger ,
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@arstechnica This would be good for Wyoming (/s), considering ChatGPT is more logical and left-wing than their current politicians.

KellicTiger ,
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@arstechnica why don't they just call the AI Colossus and be done with it.

purp ,
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@arstechnica there's a better term than meat puppet these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoborg

Neal Stephenson explored something vaguely like this in his 1994 book, Interface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_(novel)

uberprutser ,
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@arstechnica I bet some of the techbro's should be willing to bankroll the man. Could be an interesting experiment :)

mistersql ,
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@arstechnica Off-the-shelf models are not-reliably partisan conservatives like this person appears to think, and even if they were, partisan conservatives aren't a monolith, they have a rich diversity of conspiracy theories and imagined grievances that aren't all compatible with any particular Wyoming conservative's ideas.

Huntn00 ,
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@arstechnica Who trained this AI? What happens when the Mayor does not like the decision? What happens when it has a mental breakdown? 😉

Stackdump ,
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@arstechnica

Totally a bad idea - I think the best we could hope for is using an LLM to 'investigate' policy but definitely not make it.

soundconjurer ,
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@arstechnica , isn't this the premise of Appleseed?

forteller ,
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@arstechnica This is fine

b00tl00ps ,

@arstechnica What could possibly go wrong?

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