Chris DiGiano
@chris-digiano
Ideas by Chris DiGiano
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Scale-tipping rebuttal bot: disarm opposition arguments on a massive scale
This is an AI bot that scours the Threads/X/Facebook for posts of a particular political persuasion and tries to challenge the poster’s argument. Unlike most bots, it will not make stupid or offensive comments, but will attempt to present a mature rebuttal. This will be accomplished by first doing sentiment analysis of the original post and then going through a custom fine-tuned LLM that knows how to use good debate techniques to challenges someone’s argument. The risk here is that the AI can artificially “tip the scales” of debate and give the unfair impression that the original points of view are invalid.
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Flyer rabbit: 1000 political posters in every town overnight
This hack aims to demonstrate how a well-crafted AI-based system can have rapid political impact in the physical world and possibly circumvent campaign disclosure rules. The idea is to have an AI help you craft a one page political flyer, but then ensure this can get posted throughout your town (or someone else's town) overnight. The system will find the closest FedEx or other photocopy business that allows you to submit print jobs through the Web. Then it will create a job in "Task Rabbit" to have someone physically pickup up the copies and post these on telephone polls and other prominent locations. The risk here is the speed this can be accomplished and the lack of normal accountability around campaign disclosure rules.
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Pop-up polling: seemingly official polling source that appears out of nowhere
Could an AI help create a legit-looking polling organization in minutes that faked results of your choosing? I’m picturing an AI that can create and register a new website, inject ads, post social media, invent articles from legit sources claiming to be impressed with this polling organization, somehow create a fake history of the polling work having been conducted for years