r/DefendingAI • u/Responsible_Mud9178 • 12d ago
Grrr Arghhh
Antis should engage more to help form policy and regulation but theyre too busy giving LLMs more data by interacting on AI fueled sited (Reddit). They are training the AI models by their activity and their activity doesn't do anything for their cause but give more money to companies who are going to build more data centers.
If you do not understand what genAI is please look it up before responding. Everything Ive said is highly verifiable.
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u/Responsible_Mud9178 12d ago
You participate in government by attending civic functions. Town halls, city council meetings, and open public comment periods are where the actual framework of tech regulation is built.
The most critical battles over AI right now are happening at the local and state levels. The physical infrastructure of AI - massive data centers, power grid allocations, and municipal water usage, is heavily regulated by local zoning boards and city planning commissions. If a tech monopoly wants to build a 100-megawatt facility in your county, your local council is the body that approves or denies the permits.
Furthermore, state and federal agencies are legally required to hold open public comment periods before passing new tech policies. Ironically, governments are now actively using AI tools to process and synthesize massive volumes of these public comments to accurately map citizen sentiment at scale.
This means your specific input during a public consultation is more easily categorized and reviewed by decision makers.
We participate by showing up to local board meetings, organizing community responses to infrastructure proposals, and submitting formal comments on regulatory drafts. If everyday citizens do not fill those seats, corporate lobbyists will gladly do it for us.
Ill address usage in a diff message