I feel like a lot of the arguments listed in “4.1.2 Disinformation and manipulation of public opinion” apply in a non AI world. In social media, sites like Hack

I feel like a lot of the arguments listed in “4.1.2 Disinformation and manipulation of public opinion” apply in a non AI world. In social media, sites like Hacker News are rare. In most places you’ll see comments that are (purposely) sharing a subset of the whole truth in order to push a certain opinion. From my perspective disinformation and manipulation of public opinion already happens “at scale”. Most social media users belong to one political side or the other, and there are lots of them, and almost all of them are either factually incorrect or lack nuance or an understanding of their opponents’ view.