[utbabya]

I agree with you mostly, not a big fan of this talk, there are large leaps of inference, I failed to see actual data or concrete logic linking the few disjoint things he talked about back to the 2016 statement he started with.

OTOH at least it does remind people to be skeptical, and the risk * There is motive. State actors historically had the motivation to do these kind of things and acted on it. * It is achievable. Behavioral psychology works. I'd believe its use in at least commercial space is common knowledge nowadays. (Humans are very predictable at large scale.. I've seen the data personally) * Generative AI makes it a lot easier, opens up new possibility of depth and scope

There's a will, there's a mean, it's very profitable.