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Non-compulsory voting is one of the biggest problems in the US system.
Everyone always bangs on about their rights in a democracy but what about the responsibility of deciding who runs the place?
It leads to “We have to make our base angry enough to get off their arses and vote”, rather than “What policies will appeal to the most people”.
Without a “none of the above” option, compulsory voting is just compelled speech in support of the regime.
Venezuela has fairer elections than we do.
Civox, the company behind this service, is ensuring the AI discloses that it is AI to callers. They’ve also said they won’t take VC money to ensure their board’s ethics values aren’t diluted. It won’t be long before less high-minded people are doing what they are doing.
The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) will ban people from using tech like this to lie or deceive people, but few people anywhere else in the world have such protections yet. Disinformation has become the norm on social media already, it is almost inevitable people will use this technology for it. I suspect the kind of people who are already most vulnerable to disinformation, will be the easiest to be fooled by thinking AI’s calling them are real humans, if the AI says it’s human.
If the board is beginning from the premise that it is ethical to waste the time and resources of everyday citizens who did not explicitly opt into getting spammed, their ethics are already compromised. VC funding already captured the regulatory body that should have prevented this massive waste of resources. No one high-minded would use tech like this.
Taking robocall to a whole new level.
This would put me off voting for them if I got one of those calls.
World’s dumbest take.
“The Democratic party is annoying me with phone calls, so I’m going to let the fascists take over the country.”
There’s two ways you could have interpreted that comment.
The first, is that this would have annoyed me, and been a factor, but not the factor, in deciding my vote.
The second, is that I would vote for the other guys out of spite.
You went with the big brain option.
I don’t care what the party is this isn’t ok
The shitification continues
Wasn’t there a comic about this a few years back?