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highplainsdem

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Wed Jul 8, 2026, 11:34 AM Yesterday

NY Gov. Hochul's opponent just released a nasty AI-generated ad: "We asked AI what a truthful Hochul ad would look like" [View all]

Right away, that takes advantage of the people naive/gullible enough to believe AI models are accurate and tell the truth. We know from studies done that there are way too many of those people, whose gullibility makes them sitting ducks for disinformation from AI. I keep reminding DUers that asking AI models for facts, explanations and analyses is a waste of time, because AI does make mistakes and you can't trust anything it generates.

Here Bruce Blakeman, Hochul's opponent, is betting on people being foolish enough to believe that if AI supposedly said this is what a truthful Hochul ad would be, the AI is right.

You need to see what AI can be used for if ANYONE is this foolish about AI. And why you should NEVER treat genAI as a good source of information, or encourage anyone else to be that trusting of AI.


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