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This misses the most horrifying potential outcome to me. Their ability to manipulate real behavior.

Consider how addicted people can be to phone dopamine. A relatively small army of bot accounts could probably engage with content “more sympathetic than median” to their pet cause and gradually train people to be more in favor of any particular cause you care to pick

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The weaponization has already started, and will just get worse. I wonder if we will need a sort of antidote ai, which generates fake content according to our values.

That is, it dramatically widens the impact of thoughtful, kind, caring, just, understanding, forgiving, etc. content, to counteract.

While scary at first, this is an accepted reality. The reason it is horrifying in America is because of how little attention it had growing up. We were misled as kids. Taught to trust the media. There was a certain level of obliviousness to foreign or local interference. Now we know it is happening far more frequently. We saw the media lie to us with Iraq. We see the lengths that other countries will go to to try to interfere with election results. Yet, do we provide education to help people question and understand the signs of manipulation? Of course not... manipulating citizens is the MO of big corporations. It's easier to just shuffle them into 2 groups of easier to manipulate people.

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