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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

In Arizona’s U.S. Senate race, Republican Kari Lake told Politico why she feels confident in her chances, despite recent polling showing her behind Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego: “Our polling is a little different. We take polling, but we also combine it with AI, which reads all of what’s happening on social media and across the Internet.”

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/mondays-campaign-11424-kari-lake-adds-ai-polls-rcna178681?icid=latestpost_bot

Edit: Found the map she's using:

https://xcancel.com/IwriteOK/status/1853647442740441289#m

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure her results would be very accurate if troll farms could vote and chatgpt was doing the count.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like she lost despite the polls legitimately being pretty left-biased this year. Even when it's right the hallucination machine is still wrong.