I’ve emailed my representatives. Have you?

  • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 day ago

    Is it any worse than using the canned response from the page? I’m obviously interested, I’m just using ai to make it easier.

    However a hand written note is probably the most efficient.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 day ago

      Well, the person you responded to above was talking about sending more than one, which is the worst part. But even if you are only using AI to rephrase the canned response for your singular comment, that creates a situation where it is more difficult for them to actually read and consider different points people might be bringing up, because now there’s lots of messages that are basically just the canned response in content and intent but more effort to group together. Also the people going through them will probably be able to tell AI is being used, which could call into question whether someone was sending more than one even if you were not.

      • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        20 hours ago

        They’re not reading the emails, they probably have an ai to combine and summarise. So then that ai can talk to my ai. 😁

        • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          13 hours ago

          It’s possible, but I’ve followed some public comment processes for regulatory stuff before and large volumes of comments make it take way longer, because there is manual work involved. If a politician wants to still have actual people manually consider the contents of their inbox (which they absolutely should), using AI instead of a form letter will make that much harder for them to do. AI talking to AI to determine what the public thinks and wants is probably going to lose a lot in translation, and if it’s using service-based AI will give the companies running it another rather direct way to influence political outcomes.

          Given all that, I’m not sure what the advantage is to balance against it either. As opposed to sending a copy of the form letter, where you can assume they will at least count how many people have done that, what’s even the benefit of having a LLM rewrite it first?