how could the AI companies have seen this coming? it’s not like everyone has been loudly warning them about this specific danger in the exact technology they’re selling since at least the paper Google decided to fire Timnit over instead of listen to, if not longer

these technofascist fucks love when their plans look like accidents, but this is the exact shit that LLMs were built to accomplish. I don’t expect any real improvement, because deniably influencing elections is the kind of power fascists dream about