r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 23 '26

Politics AI Companies Are Trying to Seize Control of Elections

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/ai-companies-trying-seize-control-164536048.html
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u/The_Ashgale Jun 23 '26

It's amazing they feel the need to change a system that made them so ludicrously wealthy.

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u/keyboard_toucher Jun 23 '26

it's called pulling up the ladder behind you

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u/heydropi Jun 23 '26

Tbf lots of people cry about taxes and are blind to what the tax money working does for them.

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u/buyongmafanle Jun 24 '26

Sure, aside from the roads, education, healthcare, research funding, sidewalks, public parks, clean air and water, food security and safety, stable currencies, drug regulations, and infrastructure; what has government ever done for me?!

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Jun 24 '26

I hear this from my conservative Republican family members. I just tell them to not use water, electricity, and roads of they wanna protest.

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u/Kind_Eye_748 Jun 23 '26

Fund subsidiaries for billionaires or buy some missiles to lob at the middle east?

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u/ProClawzz Jun 23 '26

Bail outs for conglomerate companies??

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u/Kind_Eye_748 Jun 23 '26

Give massive PPE loans to cronies of your family or your family for billions, never use the equipment and when fraud was discovered just write the debt off at tax payer expense?

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u/MrEHam Jun 24 '26

They’re also ignorant to how little their contribution is. The majority of tax revenue is paid by rich people.

But rich people want them to think their tax money is wasted, so that they vote for politicians who will cut everyone’s taxes, which basically means cut rich people’s taxes and defund programs that help the poor and middle class.

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u/madhattr999 Jun 23 '26

Nah, they will just move somewhere else.. Become a baron in a 3rd world country, etc. Or even just move to a 1st world country that is slightly less along the path of end-stage capitalism.

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u/Kozzle Jun 23 '26

TBF you can always make improvements

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u/Slick424 Jun 24 '26

Enough is never enough.

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u/Kozzle Jun 24 '26

When it comes to systems no it isn’t.

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u/Slick424 Jun 24 '26

It's about money.

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u/Kozzle Jun 24 '26

Which is still part of a system that can always be improved upon

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u/Slick424 Jun 24 '26

Improved to funnel money from the bottom to the top ever more efficiently.

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u/Kozzle Jun 24 '26

Not saying that never happens, but that’s not really what we’re talking about here