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Elections and Resistance

Nadin Brzezinski
7 min readApr 28, 2023

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There are a few things that tell you where things are going. In Russia, elections have rarely been open or democratic. The current vertical of power is one of deep patronage relations, where loyalty is what matters, not your capacity to do the work. Public service, without enriching yourself on the side, is what idiots do, as well.

So this came through Volymedia. If I said I was surprised, I would be lying.

Campaigning in the elections in the Russian Federation will be given to neural networks

Elections will be held in many Russian regions in the fall, the presidential administration, ANO Dialog and the Regional Management Centers (RCC) decided to save on political technologists and writers (why waste money when the result is known) and will actively use artificial intelligence, especially ChatGPT.

“There is little money for full-fledged campaigns, budgets have been reduced, plus I would like to share them among the leaders, so the runaway boys from the LRCs are ordered to use neural networks to create campaign materials, slogans and other texts. The result is more or less predictable in all regions, there is no competition, runaways still don’t know how to work, they were recruited through ads and acquaintances. So let them try. ChatGPT will definitely do just as well, and maybe even better, than our Komsomol parquet shamblers,” says an employee of the presidential administration.

We were also told about the use of neural networks in the autumn elections by sources…

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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