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Post #1080238

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flametitan
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Date created
31-May-2017, 7:23 PM

Tyrphanax said:

https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine

By leveraging automated emotional manipulation alongside swarms of bots, Facebook dark posts, A/B testing, and fake news networks, a company called Cambridge Analytica has activated an invisible machine that preys on the personalities of individual voters to create large shifts in public opinion. Many of these technologies have been used individually to some effect before, but together they make up a nearly impenetrable voter manipulation machine that is quickly becoming the new deciding factor in elections around the world.

Most recently, Analytica helped elect U.S. President Donald Trump, secured a win for the Brexit Leave campaign, and led Ted Cruz’s 2016 campaign surge, shepherding him from the back of the GOP primary pack to the front.

The company is owned and controlled by conservative and alt-right interests that are also deeply entwined in the Trump administration. The Mercer family is both a major owner of Cambridge Analytica and one of Trump’s biggest donors. Steve Bannon, in addition to acting as Trump’s Chief Strategist and a member of the White House Security Council, is a Cambridge Analytica board member. Until recently, Analytica’s CTO was the acting CTO at the Republican National Convention.

Really fascinating article, especially in the light of the massive influx of fake/bot accounts following popular Twitter accounts today, one being Trumpy.

Take everything you see on the Internet with a big grain of salt, folks. Especially on social media. They might have started out with good intentions, but they pretty much now exist to sell the user and push narratives.

So will Cambridge Analytica become the new Illuminati style conspiracy group in a few decades?

Not that the existence of this thing doesn’t sound mildly terrifying. I’m really hoping they overplayed the influence this thing has.