Andrea Vance is one of NZs best political columnists.
Her latest offering is a detailed exploration of where AI politics will take us and how the Māori Party grandstanding from the cross benches is workable.
On the first issue of Political AI, what is most interesting to me is the world the National Party seem to think we inhabit.
Clearly an ‘emotional junior staff member‘ accidentally left National’s prompts on an open AI image generator and the discarded images give us a hilarious and horrifying insight into what National strategists think NZ is.
In this image, National reveal how they believe the inquiry into the Supermarket duopoly will impact supply chains. Note the low wattage soft light generated by the pussy LED bulbs!
In this image, National reveal how they believe heteronormative white cis males will fight one another in the street over the misuse of pronouns. “You misgendered my trans friend” violence is expected to peak if the Greens are in power.
In this image, National reveal how heteronormative white cis males won’t be out dating because they will be frightened of being accused of rape if Labour retain the Government benches.
In this image, National reveal how Becky with the good hair will react hearing that the Māori Party will be required for supply and confidence arrangements with a Labour led minority Government.
In this image, National reveal how local dairys will fall into burning Mad Max Apocalypse nightmare scenarios if NZ slows mass immigration of exploited migrant workers. Note how surprised each of the above white males are that they have to wait to be served. They have a ‘how-long-wil-this-take’ stance pose.
In this image, National reveal how Christopher Luxon believes Lucifer’s demons from Hell will start delivering door to door courier packages if the Fair Pay Agreements remain in place allowing workers to unionise. Apparently Chris’s ‘demons from hell’ messaging didn’t play well with the focus groups, but he was insistent that it remains as a core part of National Party policy.
Shits and giggles aside, Vance’s point remains we are about to plunge into a horror nightmare hells cape of weaponised misinformation and disinformation where only trusted journalists and media outlets are left standing as bastions of basic truth and objective shared reality.
On her other concern, how will a grandstanding Māori Party function from the cross benches, I think she identifies the problem without seeing the solution.
The problem is grandstanding from the Māori Party on the cross benches could create an instability that sinks a 3rd Labour led Government.
The solution of course is that if the Māori Party grandstand too much on policy, Labour could simply seek input with National and gain the votes there in return for National Party policy wins. If the Māori Party are not mature enough to govern properly for all New Zealanders they will rule themselves out of the legislative process and Chippy will get bipartisan votes from National instead.
The benefit of the Māori Party on the cross benches is that their price for their Supply and Confidence vote could be bottom lines that have an immediate material well being for all New Zealanders. Taking GST off food, taxing the rich and breaking up the Supermarket Duopoly within 100 days are all policies that would have populist momentum and see the most progressive legislative platform since Michael Joseph Savage.
The problem of the Māori Party grandstanding is solved by Labour being able to seek votes from National instead and the benefit could be a raft of bottomline promises that reshape the environment for those with the least in society.
If you are a Left voter, a Labour led minority Government with a supply and confidence arrangement with the Māori Party is the only strategy in town.
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If Vance is worried about a future of disinformation and mistrust then she’s both jointly responsible and late to the party, we are already there.
I’m not anti vaccine but it was very very clear that the parliament protestors were mischaracterised.
And the media coverage of the pure trans joy protestors of Posie Parker.
And any of the media who signed up to $55 million pieces of silver to run government propaganda on treaty issues cannot be trusted to speak truth to power – they work for them.
Our MSM are lying trash.
The labour movement needs to restart its newspapers and broadcasting. Any real political alternative will simply be smeared non-stop by the press barons.
Absolutely correct Keep calm
I don’t see how you can say the protesters were mischaracterised as a blanket statement. It was a collective of all sorts, some being complete a’holes.
AI is just a toxic mimic. Just like the culture of make believe who made it.
Yet we can find numerous examples of morbidly obese woman being built up on social media simply because we don’t want to hurt there feelings.
Are you a AI bot ha ha? Toxic mimic!!
Civilization is designed to make life easier not toxic. Making life more bearable goes all the way back to Adam and Eve.
‘Syphilization’ more like it…
You’re doing a way better job at making civilisation toxic than AI ever could.
Kate, AI is a useful tool, learn to use it, before it uses you, your future employment may depend on it.
I am an artist/human, AI is ripping off artists. Looks like the cheats have gamed everything.
This culture is circling the drain. You can pretend to be an artists by prompting a robot, I will stick to actually expressing my human self with paint as that’s the point really.
I think TMP on the Cross Benches will be the best thing that has ever happened to NZ.
No, National is still furious that it lost office in 2017 despite winning the popular vote.
If Labour could no longer rely on the votes of TPM, National would immediately call a vote of confidence and take the country to election using their extreme war chest to demand the electorate vote for a safe pair of hands.
National is far too pissed off about 2017 to ever contemplate extending the life of the 6th labour govt, the born to rule types will throw labour to the wolves the second they can….
So National are going to go full Trump on us…makes sense given their narcissism.
It will not funds well uf TPM is in anyway un control of this country. They are racist and elite and even with other Maori groups seem to say our way or the highway .The outcome will be based on tribalism and move the clock back 150 years. Pakeha will not take being bossed around by this party of elites. Labour has pandered to them now they are turning the screws like duel road signs .These signs will be very costly and come at a time when main roads are full of potholes .
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