i mean, think about it. the more people you have, the more counters you can have. you make your districts so there's at most a few thousand people per district, and you designate a counter (or three) from each district. then you get a few central counters per region to verify the district counts. the more people you have, the more you can decentralise.
put it this way, do you know how all the software in your phone works? because i could describe to you every step of our voting process and you can request to be present at every step to follow, open, and tally the ballots. with electronic voting, all that's out the window.
someone brought a voting machine to defcon a few years ago as a "try to hack this thing" project but it basically turned out to be pre-hacked.
nvidia will most likely survive. they didn't get big from ai, they got big from gaming and then exploded in size. they're selling shovels in a gold rush, and shovels are useful for other things.
as for quality, there are some damn good models out there built by amateurs. you just don't see them in the mainstream because they're even harder to credit than the normal piles of stolen assets. which of course means even less reason for execs to keep artists around, unless they know the tools. prompting is such a small part of actually getting good results. or rather, good enough.
the software angle brings up an interesting point because in my sector there is no ai use at all. letting ai do embedded work isn't really possible right now because the dataset is too small to train on. there are niches of art like this too.
the only thing that will make you sound more like a conspiracy nut than listing things the cia has actually done, is to describe the philosophy of the e/acc movement.
i saw a tool like that in like 1999. like, not super-realistic but convincing enough. above animorphs level at least.
idk about immediately throwing out prompts either. i did a big half-rant about this the other day but the current gen of models are all vector spaces. they are basically multidimensional topographical maps with the prompt as the starting coordinates and some traversal algorithm as the means of producing output. as long as they stick around the prompts are needed.
because it's actually great