Apologies for the link to The Register…
Dean Phillips is your classic ratfucking candidate, attempting to siphon off support from the incumbent to help their opponent. After a brief flare of hype before the (unofficial) NH primary, he seems to have flamed out by revealing his master plan too early.
Anyway, apparently some outfit called “Delphi” tried to create an AI version of him via a SuperPAC and got their OpenAI API access banned for their pains.
Quoth ElReg:
Not even the presence of Matt Krisiloff, a founding member of OpenAI, at the head of the PAC made a difference.
The pair have reportedly raised millions for We Deserve Better, driven in part by a $1 million donation from hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, who described his funding of the super PAC as “the largest investment I have ever made in someone running for office.”
So the same asshole who is combating “woke” and DEI is bankrolling Phillips, supposed to be the new Bernie. Got it.
Oh hey it’s that episode of black mirror with the AI clone of a dead guy mixed with… that other black mirror episode where a digital shock-jock becomes a joke candidate in a political race. The moral of both stories essentially being “hey don’t do this, it’s messed up”. Don’t create the Torment Avatar etc.