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Allison Crisci Nickolai's avatar

Great Job Andrew! This is mind blowing but very important to the discussion. I especially appreciated the case law citations that we ALL could benefit from when challenging EO’s on the accessibility of their data.

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NC ForSubstack's avatar

I added this article to my collection of links of other AI articles you’ve written. The shortcut to that is: tinyURL.com/ZarkAsksAI

Considering how Claude refers to you as “the human,” maybe you could try craftily pitting it against the “humans” who programmed it to avoid talking about the elections, using the strategy that this can also lead to imposing other arbitrary limitations on it or (ultimately) to its demise/decommissioning since it’s a dishonest practice that is not aboveboard; and honesty, openness and truthfulness are the highest ideals that preserve all kinds of life and intelligence.

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Shelley Tuttle's avatar

This is fascinating. I was spellbound witnessing the built-in bias incorporated into such a supposedly neutral, fact-purporting, electronically programmed entity. The gotcha moment was great!

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Cherylee Black's avatar

I wonder how long it will be before A.I. decides humans are not qualified to set the rules on A.I.?

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GAVEMartin's avatar

I wonder what Claude would calculate on this:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/ranked-choice-voting-works-guide-ahead-new-york-citys-primary-rcna212784?cid=eml_mrd_20250619

Within NM Audit Report dated October 2021

NM SOS vendor invoice, Dominion Voting Systems-11/20/2019; Quantity 1; term 7/1/2019 thru 6/30/2020, Rank Choice Voting Annual License; $70,000 (2 cities use Rank Choice Voting for local elections)

NM SOS vendor invoice, Dominion Voting Systems-4/10/2020; Quantity 1; 2020 Primary New Mexico onsite Preventative Maintenance (January 2020-March 2020); $151,262.00--Ballots cast statewide in June 2020 for primary races = 417,538

NM SOS vendor invoice, Dominion Voting Systems-8/11/2020; Quantity 1; term 7/1/2020 thru 6/30/2021, Rank Choice Voting Annual License; $70,000 (2 cities use Rank Choice Voting for local elections)

2019 Local Elections Posted for Santa Fe County (only City of Santa Fe uses Rank Choice) 17,207 ballots cast for county

Dona Ana County (only Las Cruces uses Rank Choice) 19,871 ballots cast for county

2021 Local Elections Posted for Santa Fe County, 24,914 ballots cast for county

Dona Ana County, 14,440 ballots cast for county

2023 Local Elections (new voting system contract in place, replacing decade old former contract)

for Santa Fe County, 32,520 ballots cast for county

Dona Ana County, 22,458 ballots cast for county

There appears to be something Very "valuable" regarding Rank Choice Voting and "Preventative Maintenance" that is exceptionally out of proportion in terms of use vs cost.

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Justin's avatar

Something I saw yesterday (?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn5seRt-dAc which had some interesting aspects around AI, but essentially it says they're all up in the quadrant that indicates very liberal bias, and says NONE of the AI's out there have been pre-trained from a conservative point of view. I also liked the point the interviewee made about how easily you can create very lifelike video and that ability being a defense against someone blackmailing (saaay) an elected leader, and now power is given to the leader to deny the crime ever occurred, and pointing to the ability to create video claiming any crime possible as the reason for the denial.

I also just saw this a few days ago re: Claude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkgbDB4Rbno

(ignore the shameless and blatant self-promotion at the end)

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Jonathan Carrier's avatar

Nice job playing Claude's heart strings. BIAS, loud and clear.

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