Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.
One of the worst apications for generative “AI” is math, as it happens. You’d have to check that all the work is even in the right ballpark, so you might as well just do it yourself.
I have flirted with the idea of pulling a list all registered business in my area and cross checking political donations from them/their owners.
It’s a lot of data to crunch though
Get the raw data if you can, then use AI to make a clean list. It’s not good at much, but it’s good at that…
You don’t even need AI for that. Just a bit of Python.
Not only that; but if you throw AI on that data, you’re going to get fake results mixed in.
People using AI for shit where a much better tool already exists are going to be the death of our society.
Hell, you could do this with GNU coreutils
You could do it with two text files and an awk one-liner.
One of the worst apications for generative “AI” is math, as it happens. You’d have to check that all the work is even in the right ballpark, so you might as well just do it yourself.
Fuck no.