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> AI that manipulates a person’s decisions subliminally or deceptively.

Can we use this to ban X and other American algorithmic political propaganda tools?

Actually that could be an interesting case... except if Twitter can show that its algorithm is "deterministic"

Are they using AI for that? algorithmic doesn't necessarily mean AI

Right after Musk bought twitter, the code for the algorithm was open sourced and I took a look at it. I don't know if it's still open today but anyways, there was some ML stuff in it at the time. I guess it would depend on what constitutes "AI" to European legislators.

> I don't know if it's still open today but anyways

I am p sure that they made like major major changes after they code dumped it. Considering "verified boosts" and "elon boosts" are very noticable, with the first being an confirmed "feature", I doubt the algorithm would even remotely work with data from nowadays.

Anyway, what I wanna say is that the last commit was over 2 years ago.

Yes, the AI behind X's "algorithm" has been heavily skewed towards favoring far right content. That much is obvious to anyone taking a look at the X front page. This should give some more grounds to a continent-wide ban on this platform, threatening our democracies with relentless propaganda.

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