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by r0b05 26 days ago
Gosh that is a dark pattern! Now we need to be aware of injected opinions to control the narrative.
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Now? Intelligence agencies have been doing this for decades. There’s a reason social media and the web had some much money and support behind its adoption, and why the US in particular forces its view of free speech worldwide, it’s a way to weaponize opinion.

I have almost certainty by now that half of the web is just bots steering the narrative of humans, because I’ve never seen so much non sense being normalized in my life. Dish soap drinking level I mean.

Injected opinions have existed long before LLMs.

In a way, obvious injected opinions benefit culture, by making formerly-unaware readers skeptical.