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We have entire industries dedicated to telling lies and influencing behaviour - often in ways that are sold as fulfilling, but are actually self-harming. So of

We have entire industries dedicated to telling lies and influencing behaviour - often in ways that are sold as fulfilling, but are actually self-harming. So of course this technology is going to be used to do that more efficiently. And transparently, so no one is aware of it. I can imagine a future where mainstream AI chat and interactions control the mainstream discourse, and guerrilla AIs operate at the fringes, pushing people into even more toxic discourses or - in some cases - acting to deprogram them. It's going to make social media quite interesting.

boxed 3y ago
You mean opaquely. Transparently means people can see it.
tivert 3y ago
> I can imagine a future where mainstream AI chat and interactions control the mainstream discourse, and guerrilla AIs operate at the fringes, pushing people into even more toxic discourses or - in some cases - acting to deprogram them. > It's going to make social media quite interesting. I don't think "interesting" is the right word for that. More like hopeless and depressing. Anyone with any sense will have no choice but to disengage from public, online interactions (and arguably from any private group that's large enough to be infiltrated). Anyone left in public will be little more than a sheep to be herded. Anything they make will be seen by no one, because it will be a needle in a haystack of AI-driven propaganda and spam, only engaged with by those same bots.