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It's one thing just to shout out and, as you say, make your name, make your voice heard, but actually you've got to coordinate it to people where you can create something, either through Parliament or... through perhaps legal action or through things like 38 Degrees.

And to use organizations like Democracy for Sale or Open Democracy so everyone works together rather than in their little silos.

So things can change.

There are a lot of people out there.

this,

is for Open Democracy.

They did an investigation a couple of weeks ago about abortion advice.

on LLMs and they posed as women who were pregnant in different countries to look at who was serving up the information and it wasn't just public health authorities it was anti-abortion groups that the LLMs were referring to and those issues are going to be constant those unless we're transparent about our sources and where that information is is coming from that they are going to be and how you ask llms a certain question so another example i i've sort of got in there is about cyclospora which happens to be quite topical at the moment because there's outbreaks of this explosive diarrhea around the world And a doctor had symptoms and it was like explosive diarrhoea, a stomach pain, you know, the classic symptoms, but knew exactly how to put the symptoms into chat GPT.

In 2022, Woods received a PhD from the Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University in Canada.

Their writings on conspiracy theories and reactionary politics have been translated into four languages and have appeared in Open Democracy, Patterns of Prejudice, and Marx and Philosophy Review of Books.

So here's our conversation, and I'll just mention, I said that Woods lives in Brighton.

Uh, they're actually speaking to me from a very old flat with very thick stone walls and, uh, patchy internet, so that's what you'll hear a little bit of in the audio.

The sort of corporate interest, the sort of big money backers that are often behind these sort of groups.

There was an investigation by Open Democracy that found the GWPF received nearly a quarter of a million dollars from the Sarah Scaife Foundation, which holds $30 million in shares across 22 energy companies, including $9 million in Exxon and $5.7 million in Chevron.

So that really just tells you everything you need to know, as also does Sam, as you said earlier.

the fact that Alison Pearson is a Telegraph columnist and a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

And he's been turned down.

Peter Gagan, sorry, from Open Democracy.

Does he work for? I've forgotten.

I thought you worked for Byland.

There would be no Andy Burnham without the Green Party being there for the Labour vote to desert Labour to a party offering something significantly more left-wing than Starmer was doing so.

What better way to celebrate that by replacing Keir Starmer in his constituency with somebody who's, you know, an actual progressive? Now, Ethan Schoen from Open Democracy had words of caution for the Green Party leader, saying this.

Not convinced Zach Polanski should stand.

Seems to me the benefits of winning are basically the same wherever the candidate is.