Political Pollsters Are Trying to Save Money by Polling AI
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The use of AI in polling raises concerns about accuracy and the potential for 'managed democracy', as discussed in the comments, highlighting the limitations of AI in capturing nuanced and changing public opinions.
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It's an idea from a video game where AI is spying on your life 24/7 and infers who you would vote for so you never actually need to (or can) vote.
Although then, Zuck's, Bezos' and Musk's AI would still send out lobbyists to manipulate politicians to fuck us plebs over (Hah, the overpaid codemonkey thinks he's a pleb...).
It'll be a future when an AI orders escorts be sent to Supreme Court justices' rooms in the golf vacations paid for by the billionaire. "Data says, Justice [____] likes long haired blondes with nice buttocks, send Tiffany. She should bring beer, he likes beer.".
Inferring who you would vote for doesn't accomplish this as well.
Unless models are updated by attending town halls, interacting with communities, gaining some kind of lived experience to shape a view point, or something else I haven’t thought of, then I am unsure how robust this approach may be to a changing landscape.