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People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms
www.npr.org/2026/10/05/nx-s1-5977852/ai-chatbots-midterm-electionposted in Technology
People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms
www.npr.org/2026/10/05/nx-s1-5977852/ai-chatbots-midterm-electionReplying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
Is this not what it was designed for?
Replying to @grapefruittrouble@lemmy.zip
Not with the monied interests in charge of its operation. They want people to depend upon the big AIs for answers to everything so they can subtly control the populace’s “thinking” and control them like the sheep most of them are.
Replying to @WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
Yes, that’s what the comment was saying.
Replying to @Dojan@pawb.social
Could be interpreted either way, I suppose - it was extremely vague.
Replying to @WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
I did mean it that way haha
Replying to @grapefruittrouble@lemmy.zip
You’re being downvoted, but you’re absolutely right. The entire point of the big commercial LLMs is to get ingrained into society and subtly manipulate people into things. That’s their business model.
When the companies can adjust the weights and responses to be more soft or critical to topics, you can’t exactly trust that it isn’t unbias some how.
Replying to @Zomg@piefed.world
you can click through to the source material when it’s linked.
but nobody is doing that, and when I admit to doing it people tell me I’m deranged.