How Two Colorado House Candidates Are Thinking About AI

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTwo millennial candidates in Colorado are thinking hard about artificial intelligence in their House races, The New York Times reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHere's the part I love. A consultant told Marketplace that when people ask chatbots about the race, quote, the LLMs don't know it's a race.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe what? I ask people things. Out loud. They answer or they don't.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorChatbots, Hank. The things people ask instead of reading.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo one Denver-area candidate reportedly made Ballotpedia pages for himself and his opponents, so the site would list the race.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe wrote his opponents' pages.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEvery one of them.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorColorado Politics says a complaint claims a campaign video shows a fake candidate as a grocery cashier refusing to give change, with no disclaimer. It's the refusing that gets me.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorImagine the chatbots learning that.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the machines can't find the race, but the voters can find the cashier. Hashtag, ChangePlease.