In 2020, two professors and a group of students at Cornell University sent 32,398 emails and hand written letters to 7,132 state legislators across the nation. The letters and emails took conservative and progressive positions on issues ranging from abortion to gun control. They seemingly claimed to be from the legislators’ districts. But the communications were all generated by artificial intelligence.
Notably, the study found a statistically significant rate at which legislators responded less to AI generated content than actual human generated content.
Ok, so let's do the same study with your rules. Cornell students generate the letters and solicit actual constituents in the legislator's district to hand wright letters and send emails.
Now what?
So legislators were the subject of a study. On average they each got 4.5 letters.
Is your problem with AI generated content?
I would think foreign actors and activist have been doing this for years without AI.
My point is that if I use an AI-generated letter to send to my legislator, or anyone, I should take responsibility for its contents just as if I composed it, by not trying to be anonymous. If that habit were followed perhaps more folks would read what they post, especially if they didn't actually write it.
It’s a felony to pretend you are an officer of the court. A US Congressman cannot be arrested going to or coming from a session of Congress (interesting but true still, I believe). To make false claims to the FBI is also a felony I believe; it is a crime to do so in a police investigation. Isn’t there a parallel application available here for professors and students who want to “mess with conservatives” in such a willful and contemptuous manner?
Step one would be for the GOP (or preferably someone more competent like Americans for Prosperity) create a tool that validates constituents and compares them to things like voting record as well to quickly ID phonies. There are plenty of available services that use public records to validate people and address without invading privacy.
I'm sure the counter would be for the perpetrator of the fraudulent letters to send letters on behalf of actual voters who know nothing about it. So step two should be to have all these letters scanned in and have our own AI connect them together to point to the source and charge those people with fraud.
You'll hardly ever hear me saying that we need a law, but AI deception is already out of control and bordering on dangerous. I like DeSantis, but his Super PAC's ads (linked below) with Trump's AI voice reading his own "Truth" and with the photos of Trump hugging Fauci are simply wrong. An image or video fabricated by AI needs a watermark. Same with audio and written material. If we can't believe our own eyes or ears, how can we ever learn the truth?
This sounds like a really dumb 'study'. The results are obvious, yes, handwritten notes will get noticed and will result in action more frequently by a representative than typed notes or emails. This obvious finding can only be used for nefarious purposes. It should be illegal.
If we all got back into the habit of taking responsibility for the opinions we share, by using our real names, would it matter if the original was written with AI assistance? Penny N. Gaffney
Not the point, you as a real constituent using AI to write your letter is fine, same as Erick sending out one for us to use but faking a constituent should be illegal. It is also a waste of taxpayer money if they send out responses in wasted time, envelopes etc. in replying to say nothing about swinging a vote one way or another.
We don't need a new law. We already have laws under the books for commiting mail fraud. That is what it is. The monetary is the time the staffers had to deal with the letters.
This kind of deception has been used by academia for years. In the eighties I worked at a university and was walking by an office that appeared to be dark. As I got even with the door I saw a “black light” on the desk and a phd student I knew working under it. He was taking surveys returned from farmers in the state and checking for serial numbers which were written in “invisible ink “ on the reverse side. I questioned him and he said that he never said that the surveys were anonymous - so he marked them all before they went out and now was “converting” the serial numbers to human readable...
Democrats have a bad policies and they aren’t popular. If anyone actually read what the dems want. Killing kids. Higher taxes and eliminating voting rights. They would be appalled.
But what the dems are good at is politics and are very sneaky at it too.
In Feb 2020 all was bleak for the dems. Economy booming trump up in all the polls. Then the pandemic hit and they took full advantage of it with mail in ballots. And they won. They did the same thing in 2022.
Republicans have good policies and know how to run a free country. Dems know how to scheme and win elections while implementing socialism.
They hate elections.
This AI scheme is just another way for them to cheat elections to get what they want. They have to. Because as mentioned if people really knew the truth they would never vote for a democrat ever again.
Notably, the study found a statistically significant rate at which legislators responded less to AI generated content than actual human generated content.
Ok, so let's do the same study with your rules. Cornell students generate the letters and solicit actual constituents in the legislator's district to hand wright letters and send emails.
Now what?
So legislators were the subject of a study. On average they each got 4.5 letters.
Is your problem with AI generated content?
I would think foreign actors and activist have been doing this for years without AI.
My point is that if I use an AI-generated letter to send to my legislator, or anyone, I should take responsibility for its contents just as if I composed it, by not trying to be anonymous. If that habit were followed perhaps more folks would read what they post, especially if they didn't actually write it.
It’s a felony to pretend you are an officer of the court. A US Congressman cannot be arrested going to or coming from a session of Congress (interesting but true still, I believe). To make false claims to the FBI is also a felony I believe; it is a crime to do so in a police investigation. Isn’t there a parallel application available here for professors and students who want to “mess with conservatives” in such a willful and contemptuous manner?
Step one would be for the GOP (or preferably someone more competent like Americans for Prosperity) create a tool that validates constituents and compares them to things like voting record as well to quickly ID phonies. There are plenty of available services that use public records to validate people and address without invading privacy.
I'm sure the counter would be for the perpetrator of the fraudulent letters to send letters on behalf of actual voters who know nothing about it. So step two should be to have all these letters scanned in and have our own AI connect them together to point to the source and charge those people with fraud.
You'll hardly ever hear me saying that we need a law, but AI deception is already out of control and bordering on dangerous. I like DeSantis, but his Super PAC's ads (linked below) with Trump's AI voice reading his own "Truth" and with the photos of Trump hugging Fauci are simply wrong. An image or video fabricated by AI needs a watermark. Same with audio and written material. If we can't believe our own eyes or ears, how can we ever learn the truth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKQiTpiPN7I
https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1665799058303188992?s=20&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AI+Infiltrates+the+2024+Race&utm_campaign=AI+Infiltrates+the+2024+Race
It's being driven by the Father of Lies. That's a biblical reference, not a Fauci reference ;)
This sounds like a really dumb 'study'. The results are obvious, yes, handwritten notes will get noticed and will result in action more frequently by a representative than typed notes or emails. This obvious finding can only be used for nefarious purposes. It should be illegal.
sigh. This is why we can't have nice things.
"It's ALWAYS something!" - Rosanne Rosanna Danna
If we all got back into the habit of taking responsibility for the opinions we share, by using our real names, would it matter if the original was written with AI assistance? Penny N. Gaffney
Not the point, you as a real constituent using AI to write your letter is fine, same as Erick sending out one for us to use but faking a constituent should be illegal. It is also a waste of taxpayer money if they send out responses in wasted time, envelopes etc. in replying to say nothing about swinging a vote one way or another.
Is the professor AI?? ...Since he's not responding 🤪🤣
And yeah, there should be a law against that for sure.... AI disturbs me. A lot.
Erick maybe the AG of West Virginia could apply a little pressure for the professor to respond
We don't need a new law. We already have laws under the books for commiting mail fraud. That is what it is. The monetary is the time the staffers had to deal with the letters.
but is the email ones "mail fraud", and i doubt could get DOJ to prosecute it as mail fraud either way.
This kind of deception has been used by academia for years. In the eighties I worked at a university and was walking by an office that appeared to be dark. As I got even with the door I saw a “black light” on the desk and a phd student I knew working under it. He was taking surveys returned from farmers in the state and checking for serial numbers which were written in “invisible ink “ on the reverse side. I questioned him and he said that he never said that the surveys were anonymous - so he marked them all before they went out and now was “converting” the serial numbers to human readable...
Wow! Is it any wonder so many of us are so cynical?
Sounds like a significant mis/dis-information paradigm shift to me. Our new Pravda has arrived... 🤮
Democrats have a bad policies and they aren’t popular. If anyone actually read what the dems want. Killing kids. Higher taxes and eliminating voting rights. They would be appalled.
But what the dems are good at is politics and are very sneaky at it too.
In Feb 2020 all was bleak for the dems. Economy booming trump up in all the polls. Then the pandemic hit and they took full advantage of it with mail in ballots. And they won. They did the same thing in 2022.
Republicans have good policies and know how to run a free country. Dems know how to scheme and win elections while implementing socialism.
They hate elections.
This AI scheme is just another way for them to cheat elections to get what they want. They have to. Because as mentioned if people really knew the truth they would never vote for a democrat ever again.
ChatGPT/AI is Skynet and it needs to be destroyed before it destroys human civilization.
And there goes the last shred of representative government.