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Reading between the lines, if they're gonna do anything with the data other than sell it as donor lists, the last bit of the article suggests it'll have somethi

Reading between the lines, if they're gonna do anything with the data other than sell it as donor lists, the last bit of the article suggests it'll have something to do with AI—I could see this being useful for training certain kinds of propaganda AI (especially training it to strike the right tone and content to get high positive engagement from a certain audience), or, relatedly, donation-request-copywriting AI (get a profile of the potential donor, tune your message to that person specifically to maximize likelihood of donation, that kind of thing)

pooper 4y ago
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LegitShady 4y ago
I don't see why you'd need to buy the data to do that - you could just scrape it.
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Might include "private" groups or DMs that are hard to scrape. Plus data to tie handles to real people.
  - red-iron-pine 4y ago
    Presumably they're making profiles for internal use, ad generation, etc. Those profiles, keywords, IP addresses, etc. are the value of the site, IMO, outside of trying to sway consensus further.

pooper 4y ago

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LegitShady 4y ago

I don't see why you'd need to buy the data to do that - you could just scrape it.

yamtaddle 4y ago
Might include "private" groups or DMs that are hard to scrape. Plus data to tie handles to real people.
- red-iron-pine 4y ago
  Presumably they're making profiles for internal use, ad generation, etc. Those profiles, keywords, IP addresses, etc. are the value of the site, IMO, outside of trying to sway consensus further.