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We already saw during the primaries that the GOP is cutting as many polling places as possible so people can't make it in time or aren't able to stand in line long enough to vote.

Tarrant County is about to have a vote to cut about half of their polling sites. Expect more of that in your area, and expect that you might not hear about it.

Also, check REPEATEDLY that you're registered to vote, especially as we get closer to the election! Just because you were registered in March doesn't necessarily mean you'll still be registered in November.

The last day to register to vote in the midterms is October 5.

Oh, the party's nominee wasn't even in your primary? Too bad, the GOP was worried their candidate might lose so they redid the voting maps. You get next door's candidate instead.

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

LLMs learn one thing (and one thing only!) and can repeat the learned data in any way you require. Such as summaries and graphs. They can predict in the sense that after looking at 1000 items in a sequence they can guess what comes next. But the only accurate thing about them is them repeating data back at you in a condensed format.

Then ChatGPT comes out and I'm of course highly dubious of the term "AI". Lo and behold, any further reading on it reveals its just an LLM, same as any other supposed "AI" out there.

Again, LLMs do not produce something new. They repeat back what was given in the way you want. So "AI" scrapes the internet and just spews the main Google page at you but with a twist. The twist is the bad part because every extra instruction you give an LLM on how to repeat back to you, every bit more complicated it gets, the more likely it is to make mistakes. Programmers working with LLMs often have the program spit out the results of every individual step when this happens so they can fix it and move on. "AI" does not do this and people don't think to ask. People don't know to ask. They've been sold the idea that this machine thinks for itself.

It doesn't. It just echoes information from others in any way you like.

The more complicated the order (such as condensing a summary into a few paragraphs, or using a sassy tone, or explaining via pop culture analogies, etc), the more likely for things to go wrong. Because then it's trying to combine multiple learning models in one. An LLM trained on history can probably give good answers. An LLM trained on vocal tone might approach accurate sounds. An LLM trained on analogies will always make mistakes (because it would need a lot of data on each item its trying to compare). But a single LLM trying to do all three at once is going to encounter redundancies and contradictions, each request guiding it to a different outcome.

LLMs, "AI", are an echo. Echoes are just our own words bounced back. Echoes can be fun to play with. Echoes can be somewhat helpful in navigating the world when we analyze the way they bounce back.

Echoes are not another intelligent being. Echoes are not thinking. Echoes are not providing anything else that hasn't already been said before.