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peadith t1_jeanzmt wrote

Ha! Legislators have been using the lowest budget form of AI to respond to constituents for decades. If anything this just levels the field.

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Hashtagworried t1_jeazsoj wrote

Source?

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yaosio t1_jeb1sln wrote

It's called a form letter. The letter is prewritten with mad libs style spots for entering information to make it appear relevant to the person it's being sent to.

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Hashtagworried t1_jeb2q13 wrote

Call me old fashion, but that isn’t AI even if it’s at its lowest budget. It’s just exactly what you’re calling, a template.

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127-0-0-1_1 t1_jebcqhc wrote

They were being facetious, not seriously saying that they were using AI.

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Hashtagworried t1_jebhx3p wrote

Yeah I know. Exactly why I asked since I’m not too sure how reliable AI was ten years ago.

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peadith t1_jeb3x61 wrote

The mildly staffer-edited form letter is old as time. Interestingly, it's easy to tell when you get one.

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[deleted] t1_jebxrjf wrote

I don't foresee GPT making much progress on this front until they come up with a cheque-printing plugin.

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JohnClark13 t1_jeb4cbh wrote

You could just, not do that with ai

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gullydowny t1_jeayu7n wrote

This may have an upside, some of the demagogues are going to have to actually talk to constituents in person and listen to experts once in a while

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WoolyLawnsChi t1_jecqh82 wrote

LOL

Legislators will have to talk to constituents and have town halls again

The horror

and don’t give me the lobbying/astroturf ”nightmare” arguement

thanks to billionaires, that ship sailed years ago

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freerangepops t1_jefv21l wrote

This study assumed that politicians assess the content of letters they receive beyond what is necessary to appeal for money. That is bizarrely naive for a social researcher.

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