[soylentcola]

> Call me a derisive cynic, but I think the GOP voter base just isn't intelligent enough to be interested in AI issues

Just wait until someone decides the latest LLM du jour is "woke".

> The Dems have shifted from the party of information freedom to openly embracing censorship and state propaganda in the past decade.

And this has been a common weak point of theirs for longer than that. Nanny-state, "we know what's best" stuff has been a valid criticism of the Democratic side for decades.

I don't know that politicians and the "upper management" types in government have ever been terribly well-versed, interested, or effective when it comes to matters of tech (or anything more specialized, really).

[cwkoss]

> someone decides the latest LLM du jour is "woke".

This would be an argument against giving the big players a regulatory moat monopoly. The zeitgeist would have to decide that LLMs are all inherently woke for this to be persuasive to GOP voters, in my estimation.