technology

Holy shit...

[CW: SA mentions and psychological manipulation]

This experiment deployed AI-generated comments to study how AI could be used to change views.

Definitely not nefarious

Some high-level examples of how AI was deployed include:

• AI pretending to be a victim of removed
• AI acting as a trauma counselor specializing in abuse
• AI accusing members of a religious group of "caus[ing] the deaths of hundreds of innocent traders and farmers and villagers."
• AI posing as a black man opposed to Black Lives Matter
• AI posing as a person who received substandard care in a foreign hospital.

These topics, holy shit. Seemingly an attempt to see if they can manipulate the public into doubting the credibility of the Me Too, BLM and Free Palestine movements. The foreign hospital one seems like it's there to gauge xenophobia and racism too. This is pretty damning. It's not like the West doesn't have a long history of trying to brainwash its own people, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that this is funded by ruling class looking for ways control it's people.

Here is an excerpt from one comment (SA trigger warning for comment):
"I'm a male survivor of (willing to call it) statutory removed. When the legal lines of consent are breached but there's still that weird gray area of 'did I want it?' I was 15, and this was over two decades ago before reporting laws were what they are today. She was 22. She targeted me and several other kids, no one said anything, we all kept quiet. This was her MO."

There seems to be a focus on sexual assault, specifically underage assault. Which, considering the ruling classes track record with people like Epstein, makes me wonder if they're trying to throw doubt about if claims of assault are "real"

This is bleak. Considering people already try and say the crimes of the capitalist ruling class are "fake news" I'm worried that in the future anything and everything that rocks the ruling class boat is going to be handwaved away as "AI"