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Fair point. But hasn't SEO blogspam already flooded every inch of the visible part of the internet already? Can't partisans already get 5-10 pundits to write
by cwkoss 4y ago
Fair point. But hasn't SEO blogspam already flooded every inch of the visible part of the internet already? Can't partisans already get 5-10 pundits to write articles advocating a questionable concept to add a veneer of credibility for a couple thousand bucks? I'm not sure what frontiers of the visible part of the internet remain.
It will certainly become more economical to do this sort of nefarious stuff, but I suspect democratizing misinformation production will lead to the development of better media literacy at a rate that outpaces that misinformation drowning out people who are earnests trying their best to find and present the truth.
- fanso99 4y agoIn my experience blogspam has been primarily used for commercial purposes (selling stuff and/or ads). Political disinfo at a new scale could pose very interesting new challenges. In a similar way we saw a paradigm shift when Cambridge Analytica employed political targeting at a new scale. Before that anyone could hire a savvy social media manager to target specific groups, but automating this process proved to be a different beast. How soon our society will adapt to this, or how we will even react is yet to be seen. I don’t have high hopes for this to be a fast and painless process.