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Doesn't this only work if everyone is stupid and believes everything they see/read/hear on the internet? You have to have a little more faith in humanity than

• flangola7 3y ago
  With respect: *Have you been living under a rock?*
  • JimtheCoder 3y ago
    No, I have not. I do not judge humanity as a whole based on a very vocal minority...
    • flangola7 3y ago
      I didn't say anything about judging people. I hold no ill will here. But I've ran trust&safety and now cybersecurity for a decade - humans are not cut out for memetic warfare. Humans cannot handle normal but internet-speed incidental misinformation without society eating itself, much less coordinated disinformation. Democracy is eroding all across the globe and that's without generative systems that will make the problem 1000x worse. We evolved to pick berries, not discriminate and identify distant manipulative actors with extensive resources. "You are not immune to propaganda."
• anigbrowl 3y ago
  No. You just need a minority of people. And they don't have to be stupid; they can be equally motivated by mendacity, spreading untruths because its fun or because they will discomfit political opponents. About 30% of humans are willing to suffer some sort of loss or disadvantage in order to inflict a larger one on a counterparty; that might seem irrational, but some people are just mean. You have to have a little more faith in humanity than that... I used to, but then I grew out of it.