49% agreed to some extent that elections in the country don’t represent people like them; 51% agreed to some extent that the political system in the US “doesn’t work for people like me;” and 64% backed the statement that “America is in decline.” A whopping 65% agreed either strongly or somewhat that “nearly all politicians are corrupt, and make money from their political power”

Nearly all of these statements are, I think, undeniable if you’re paying attention. I’m surprised the percentages are so low.

“I think these statements blow me away, the scale of these numbers with young voters,” Evan Roth Smith, Blueprint’s lead pollster, told Semafor. “Young voters do not look at our politics and see any good guys.”

(Emphasis mine)

And that is exactly the point where the misinterpretation train leaves the station. The excitement generated by Bernie Sanders / Beto O’Rourke / etc seems to suggest otherwise.

If you wanted to check whether young voters feel that the right answer to that bleakness you asked them about is to give up on politics and let whatever happens happen, rather than to get involved and fix it, you could have asked them that directly. My observation is that they are voting and getting involved in protest movements a lot more so than other younger generations in the recent past, but it kinda sounds like you don’t want that to be true, so you asked them something different and then decided that they said something different than they did.

I agree with the title, but Semafor is not a real news source.

The easiest way to understand Signals is to go look at one yourself — it’s fundamentally a collection of links to stories from around the web about a topic, curated and summarized by a Semafor reporter. The twist is that Semafor built an AI-powered search tool called MISO (for “multilingual insight search optimizer”) to help those reporters find a broad range of stories in various languages to make that curation process more efficient. The company describes the tool as “a custom bot built on OpenAI’s platform and using Microsoft’s Bing search engine.”

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/5/24062229/semafor-signals-miso-ai-microsoft

Their “reporters” are just checking what an AI spews out.

And there’s a lot more shady stuff this could be heading.

They’ve said they want to eventually tailor articles presented, headlines, and even article content to users.

The potential propaganda impact of something like this can not be ignored. People bitch about social media algorithms changing people’s opinions, but this is disguised as a real new organization and wants to change the information shown on its site on a user by user basis to more effectively get people to the result the owners of the website works.

Uber used to provide a cheap effective service, so did Walmart. Once they get market share, the shit show begins.

Senafor is still in the process of capturing market share, dont help them accomplish that step so they can move into the shady shit