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Let's not kid ourselves. The technology will be used by PR firms, advertising companies, political campaigns and governments to pretend, at scale, that there is
by jwtadvice 10y ago
Let's not kid ourselves. The technology will be used by PR firms, advertising companies, political campaigns and governments to pretend, at scale, that there is public consensus on certain issues and to drown social media conversation in particular narratives.
Anyone have any good defensive technology ideas?
- astrodust 10y agoWhere there's AI to bombard you with ads, someone will make AI that scrambles your online presence to confuse them. Social network camouflage.
- jwtadvice 10y agoThat's a cool idea. Does anyone know of any projects in this direction?
- astrodust 10y agoI remember one for Facebook that, because you couldn't delete your account, would systematically edit and wreck every single bit of data it could touch, replacing it with random junk. I've also seen some that register you for sites by feeding in random demographic data.
- macns 10y agoSomeone should make a virus out of that, destroy the social network from the inside and watch everyone crying over their phones.