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by dmix 481 days ago
Humans are extremely well tuned to detect authenticity in communication. Especially younger generations raised on mass marketing.

This is good in a way a scifi movie shows a tech, sounds cool and demos futuristic possibilities. But not quite passing the real human vibe yet. But I'm sure some people might find it preferable to a more to-the-point system like GPT or Siri/Alexa in certain niche cases not requiring immediate gratification.

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>Humans are extremely well tuned to detect authenticity in communication.

I think the long-standing success of advertising and propaganda suggests that people really aren't all that good at that.

I suspect success of advertising is less about people falling for deception and more about information availability. If you know nothing about two brands except you've heard the name of one 50 times in ads, you'll probably try it first.

I think propaganda is a better example, although again I think often people aren't deceived, they simply agree with the message or don’t care about the underlying truthfulness of the message and just use it as a way to align with their tribe, etc.