Form of manipulation? Check.
Sowing seeds of doubt? Check.
Targeted individual? Check.
Make them question their own perception? Check.
I’m pretty okay with their use of the word by your own definition.
I’m pretty okay with their use of the word by your own definition.
In the opposite direction, you could choose to reinforce current ideas. Which, due to confirmation bias, would probably be easier than gaslighting.
But those are also things people may be comfortable just asking up front.
Of course other messages like "quit your job" for a coworker just seem spiteful and mean spirited.
No, gaslighting is systematically disorienting a person by staging confusing events, and blaming that confusion on the target themself. A one-way pipeline of targeted ads is not gaslighting, unless you call your wife crazy when she complains about all these weird ads she's seeing. But that's not what this service is automating.