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Mike Houlding's avatar

feeble criticism of Luxon. Far more important to focus of Seymour and McKee.

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Peter Reddaway's avatar

What do you mean by feeble?

It’s difficult to criticise Seymour’s speech considering he was effectively sung off stage, and at the end of the day - Luxon is the main focus because he is supposed to be the leader of the country.

Either way, the fact that an AI can produce a more coherent speech about something politicians and their speech writers should be intimately familiar with is troubling. Considering it’s as easy as using the aforementioned prompt, it’s as if the sitting government doesn’t *actually* care about the issue, and they’re more interested in *telling* people what they should believe rather than discussing issues productively.

Which is ironically one of their criticisms of he Labour government as opposition. It’s hard to put faith in a party that immediately commits the same acts they angrily criticised the previous government for, especially after the amount of shady tactics they used leading up to the election.

They seem to be less and less concerned with accountability and don’t seem as concerned about reelection.

I feel like the Americanisation of NZ politics is to blame, and the rapid cycling of controversy.

Why worry about a lil tension at the start of the cycle, when you can just bombard people with pork-barrelling during election season after everyone has forgotten.

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Grant Duncan PhD's avatar

Thanks for the comments!

Luxon lost a great opportunity to do a great speech. That tells us something about his leadership style.

GD

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