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Idk - I think manufacturing consent may be easier rather than harder these days. The fact that it's now realistic to accuse people of being a bot (GPT-3) means

Idk - I think manufacturing consent may be easier rather than harder these days. The fact that it's now realistic to accuse people of being a bot (GPT-3) means that elites could just deploy large numbers of language models fine tuned and prompted correctly to AstroTurf and manufactur consent "from the ground up".

klyrs 5y ago
It's not even hypothetical; governments can and do fund astroturfers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368214