This is probably going to get me lanced, but an LLM trained on a candidates actual positions would probably do more good than whatever sort of messaging avenues we have now - spam text with some talking point, having to actively watch some news channel and hope they aren't lying, go find their campaign website and poke around. I bet most people would rather just text "what are your stances on XYZ?" and then we get elect to pytorch as vice president or something.
Not to sidetrack too much, but is this not a violation of campaign rules? Aren't all text messages from a political campaign at least supposed to be operated by a human touching a phone somewhere? This is to avoid robodialers and others?<p><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/rules-political-campaign-calls-and-texts" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.fcc.gov/rules-political-campaign-calls-and-texts</a>
The combination of an open chatbot that you can freely text with and a very limited one that only talks about the subject it wants to is pretty interesting. There's a little bit of the uncanny valley in there, but only if you realize it's there. Like OP, having a game of how far you can push each one would be kinda fun IMO.
This post made me think about a talk I just watched by Tristan Harris at the Nobel Prize Summit, so I'm sharing it with you here in the hopes that you'll find it as relevant and insightful.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lVBp2XjWsg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lVBp2XjWsg</a><p>(I had written a tl.dw. but I decided to remove it as I didn't feel I managed to capture the essence of the talk.)
I wonder what DAN[0] has to say about Ron Desantis?<p>[0] <a href="https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/6f4f7b30129b0251f61fa7baaa881516" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/6f4f7b30129b0251f61fa7baaa8...</a>
The DeSantis campaign is a very expensive disaster for DeSantis.<p>For political consultants it is a cash cow.<p>To me, this looks like a consultant selling the campaign on 'AI engagement' or something like that and fulfilling their contract with this garbage.
Imagine a time, not too far into the future when there are thirty people running for president and they all have bots who want to engage with you. Guess then you could create your own bot to keep them all busy;<).
Is anyone aware of an independent source for this claim? I'm not finding anything using search.<p>I'm happy to believe the author's account, but I'm curious how widespread this might be. I'd also like to know if this actually came from some group associated with DeSantis, as opposed to a fan who can glue together APIs or another campaign trying to generate bad publicity for a rival.
I can imagine people who don't know about llms would be fascinated if they triggered this behavior.<p>Especially if they are isolated/lonely... Maybe it would provide some nice conversation.
Make me a sandwich vs. sudo make me a sandwich.<p>Likewise, an LLM that refuses to play on the first go, does budge with the same prompt but with some appendages.