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How do you keep people who want to spend money on persuasion from attempting to bias the dominant search AI? Let's take an extreme example - say Exxon decides
by smallerfish 4y ago
How do you keep people who want to spend money on persuasion from attempting to bias the dominant search AI?
Let's take an extreme example - say Exxon decides they want to spend $1 billion on influencing society in favor of the petroleum industry. They hire 10,000 freelance content writers to write 1000 articles each at $100 a pop and flood the internet over the course of several years with (everything from subtle to blatant) pro-petroleum content (nuclear's dangerous, solar will never scale, fusion's a pipe dream, wind is ugly, great new ways of recycling plastic, microplastics are actually beneficial to the human biome, a brand new low emission engine, ...). How is the scraper that ingests knowledge for the AI supposed to weed those out? It's still SEO, just at a higher level than the current mom and pop efforts.
- arcturus17 4y agoI completely agree that economic agents are going to try to game it at scale - it's basic human nature. On the other hand, if people complained that Google was a black box, or that as the old marketing adage goes, "advertising spend works, I just don't know which half", this might be a whole other level. So agents will try but I have no clue whether it will be economical or effective.