I think there is something to be said about google and big techs goals of manipulating public opinion by manipulating your personal opinion.
They do this in part by creating a profile of each user based on their data and metadata (email, chats, location, search history, device tracking, third party data, purchase history, social media, etc.) so the more data you give them by using their products the more accurate their model of you is and that makes their propaganda campaigns more effective.
They manipulate people by subtle algorithmic changes, sorting search results, promoting content that triggers or deflates, shadow banning and limiting reach, and probably way more frightening ways in the future now that they have AI doing the heavy lifting.
Social engineering on a mass scale.
Yeah absolutely. You got any good data sources on this for us to use in future articles?
The movie The Social Dilemma is a good start but also with the context of when it was filmed and released in mind, it was released January 2020. Those people (ex big tech whistleblowers) were exposing the tools that were obviously utilized in mass during the last few years. They were doing that type of social engineering before with whatever machine learning they had at the time and ML/AI has made massive leaps in progress since then so imagine how good their ML models are now.
It’s probably how they get a lot of the NPCs to support the current thing or get triggered by the current outrage.
https://youtu.be/uaaC57tcci0?si=nOmXwG1TYy_8XQZ6
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