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It takes effort to be an informed citizen. Artificial intelligence tools offer an alluring shortcut — but they’re not without risk.

  • Batmorous@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 hours ago

    Yeah no let’s help people that are like this get out of it. We should not have people going down that bad rabbithole. We all have to research candidates properly and do

  • Ilixtze@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    24 hours ago

    It never fails to amaze me, the readyness of a lot of folks to become intellectual cuckolds. It isn’t even just AI, but also how easily they follow the most blatant propaganda even ifnit works against their interest.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        Being called an NPC used to be a joke/insult.

        Now its just actually real, people offload all their thinking to an LLM… thats as close as you can currently get to just being a literal real world NPC.

        I guess the next step would be brain implants that just make that it an always on, straight mainline into your brain.

        Reddit hivemind trains the LLM, LLM trains the people, hivemind is now basicslly actually real.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      RIIR - but this time, it’s the Constitution they want to re-write.

      Thiel and company loooooove this outcome, by the way.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    Well, that’s what they were doing, more or less, when it came to letting platforms like Facebook and Youtube tell them what to think…

      • Batmorous@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 hours ago

        No no no, just keep doing and getting more people doing. We win by doing and making sure people are not falling into these rabbitholes/getting them out.

        Never give up!! Fuck it we ball!!!

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    41·
    2 days ago

    This was a pretty obvious one imo. Anyone who didnt see this coming had their eyes closed. Outsourcing your thinking to a product that can be freely manipulated by the company providing it has always been the goal of these companies. The ministry of truth is finally here and people are even paying money to use it.

    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      22 hours ago

      Oh, maybe with the conflicting information and isolation the do your own research crowd might end up turning to the ask-a-nazi to help them sort out what’s really going on.

      Wow

  • greybeard@feddit.onlineEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Unfortunately, these days, marketing departments know this, and like most marketing, money wins. It used to be SEO, but now it is AIO. The goal is to write articles it knows will get sucked up by the AI training sets, setting the narrative the AI will repeat. Because the page aren’t meant to be consumed by humans, they can be long-winded, repetitive, and misleading.

    I have no doubt big political campaigns are doing the same thing.

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
      41·
      1 day ago

      Got a link on AIO?

      How is that different than just content marketing articles they’ve been writing for years for SEO?

      • greybeard@feddit.onlineEnglish
        2·
        23 hours ago

        SEO was optimized for keywords and human readability. AIO doesn’t need to care about either of those, the crawlers will find it, and the LLMs will consume it. I am not a marketing expert, so I don’t know the exact specifics, and it is such a new field, I’m sure things are still evolving.

        If you search “AIO marketing”, you can find plenty of references to it. I have no idea what a good reference is though, so I don’t want to link one.

          • greybeard@feddit.onlineEnglish
            2·
            22 hours ago

            💯️. That’s why I didn’t link to any, I don’t know what is good. But I know in my company, SEO and AIO are seen as different things.

            Imagine a niche industrial software manufacturer. There might be 3 total players in the space, and a handful of Reddit posts total. AIO looks to make sure that when their website is crawled by the AI companies, the model is trained with a slant toward their product, not only in generic “Is there software to do this” queries, but also a “Product A vs Product B” query.

            So Product A will put up page after page on their website about how great their product is, how much better it is than B and C. How B and C are a bad choice. And so on. Not designed to be top results in Google, but be consumed and direct LLMs subtly to their product over their competitors.