>A "review website" which is all that, but with fake reviews that promote one brand over the others… a chain of such websites that link to each other to boost PageRank scores… which are then cross-linked with a huge number of social media bots…"
functionally different than a majority of news outlets in the US parroting the exact same story, verbatim?
* please note, i am glibly linking that youtube video as a completely transparent example of what i am talking about. There are many (many) more examples. don't read into the content of the video so much, and just think about the implications.
I think the only difference is one of scale and cost.
AI is automation, and the existence of fully automated propaganda doesn't deny the existence of manual propaganda before it.
> This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
Indeed, the existing manual kind of propaganda is already dangerous. Always was.
Even so, manual propaganda can at least be fought by grass-roots movements, by humans being human. This is why freedom of speech is valuable.
Hard for real humans to counter an AI that can be even moderately conversational at a cost of just USD 0.99/day to fully saturate someone's experience of the world.
>A "review website" which is all that, but with fake reviews that promote one brand over the others… a chain of such websites that link to each other to boost PageRank scores… which are then cross-linked with a huge number of social media bots…"
functionally different than a majority of news outlets in the US parroting the exact same story, verbatim?
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo
* please note, i am glibly linking that youtube video as a completely transparent example of what i am talking about. There are many (many) more examples. don't read into the content of the video so much, and just think about the implications.