We’ve seen the AI “chat with Jesus” app, the ChatGPT app that can pass law exams (among others), and the AI-written Bible, and “AI-Jesus.” Now, there is a “chatbot” out today called Chat2024 that lets you “talk” to any political candidate:
“President Biden immediately got to the point for a change, former President Trump was surprisingly polite, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sounded only mildly robotic.”
As it has already been revealed that ChatGPT is left-leaning, this is no different:
Ask if Hunter Biden is a crook, and an AI clone of Biden will respond first that “Hunter, like many Americans, has faced his share of personal struggles,” and second, “that there’s been no evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter.”
The AI clones will talk policy all day long. As designed, the AI clones will not, however, touch any topic that’s not safe to discuss in the workplace or broadcast during a prime time televised debate.
Whatever that means.
Operatives of two presidential candidates, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they will pass. “I’m just supposed to rely on the word of this third party? Yeah, right,” said one incredulous senior campaign aide who doubted the algorithm powering Chat2024 was truly agnostic. Artificial intelligence, the aide insisted, was only as neutral as the human programmer behind the curtain. “We have all seen the stories about how ChatGPT leans left,” they added, referencing another popular AI program.
Americans are already skeptical of flesh-and-blood politicians, an operative working on another campaign said. “Just wait until the words coming out of their mouths aren’t actually theirs.” It isn’t that they doubt the technology though. The aide said that AI might be good “for math equations and cheating on your homework.” But for politics? “It’s a ticking time bomb.”
Dara Ladjevardian, the 27-year-old co-founder of Delphi, the Miami-based company that has developed Chat2024, makes a disturbing statement; he says there is no stopping Artificial Intelligence:
“Pandora’s Box is already open,” he said. “There is literally no going back, even if they shut down open AI today.”
It’s time to become hyper-aware of the use of AI in just about everything. I dare say a little paranoia is in order because of the pervasiveness of which this technology is capable. It will be bad enough that we receive a phone call from a “candidate” which sounds exactly like them, but when they begin to distribute video of the same candidate(s) in whatever situation – good or bad – then it’s Katy bar the door. For most of us, it will be indistinguishable from the “real” thing.
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