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Jun 11

1h 25m

About AI Political Ads and the Cultural ...

Andrew Heaton, Jen Briney, Justin Robert Young

About this episode

Hot off some controversial new AI ads ahead of the midterms, the gang digs into whether our current class of campaigns are going too far in putting words in the mouths of their opponents. They also look into recent poll results that suggest a coming cultural conservatism wave, and ask if such a thing is real, what might be causing it?

Chapters

00:00:00 - Intro

00:29:06 - AI Political Ads

00:55:32 - Cultural Conservatism Wave

01:12:36 - Emails

01:20:33 - Wrap-up

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