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Burn it all to the ground.

Great reporting and interesting thread

If we go down an elections reform bill that has some sort of voter ID requirement, there better be reforms to stop crap like this.

A citation can make a wrong destination feel checked. The missing step may be verifying who actually receives the payment before a helpful-looking answer becomes an action.

I mean, that's kinda smart. Fucking with AI agents is a gold mine for PR.

AI has no ability to distinguish between real information and disinformation, so it's inherently ripe for this type of abuse

Posted that even before I saw this. Jesus. newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Are all of the Talarico fundraising texts that come from different random numbers legitimate? Or is Elon and the GOP fucking around with that too.

While Google used to have the best search engine, I dropped them in favor of Firefox for web browsing and DuckDuckGo for searching. Firefox protects your privacy and DDG doesn't default to AI responses.

"We're campaigning for the AI vote now," Eric Wilson, a Republican campaign technologist, told me. Gift link to my story today on how voters getting information from AI is already complicating the midterm elections: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

This is all so infuriating. Ugh.

Paywall

Great story, and you can see how Google AI Overviews compares to other chatbots on propaganda in the AI Disinformation Benchmark: dosimeteraudit.org/benchmark/google-ai-overviews

So the same software that can't count the r's in strawberry is now routing campaign donations. Bold strategy.

In New York the fake campaign ad already aired — 43 seconds of a park stroll nobody filmed, never disclosed as AI. https://aicomicpage.com/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=speed-reply&utm_campaign=reply-guy&utm_content=2026-10-07-political-deepfake-ad#cartoon-2026-10-07-political-deepfake-ad

man, when will people dump google. there are so many other search engines that aren't in rumps pocket. switch to duckduckgo or anything other than google. it's super easy, I swear. I did, and I immediately felt better knowing I wasn't contributing to this bullshit. it's quite freeing, I promise.

In Louisiana, one of the MAGA candidates is running a tv ad against self-dealing, corrupt politicians. It sounds downright Democratic, and no where does it show him as a Republican. It's deceptive as all get out. And this is in bright red LA.

AI scans the interweb sucking up every sentence it can find. then answers questions based on what words are statistically likely to follow other words. if it finds lots of garbage sentences it will give you garbage results GIGO

It will mysteriously always benefit republicans