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by hunterpayne 32 days ago
Here is a brief selection of topics which foreign intelligence agencies have at some point tried to boost or manipulate:

- Global Warming

- AI Data Centers consume water

- Various Covid treatments

- Impact of AGW

Now it doesn't mean these concerns aren't real. It does mean that when you read about such a topic, there is a significant probability the message have been manipulated for some government's interests. And often those governments are adversaries of your own.

These articles then get used to train LLMs...

2 comments

Why do you mention foreign intelligence agencies specifically without mentioning which intelligence agency is your domestic one? Do you believe "your people" don't do that kind of thing, or that yours is justified? Or do you explicitly leave it unsaid so that every reader can interpret foreign from their own perspective and feel good about themselves?

And I don't for a second believe that it's intelligence agencies that are doing most of the manipulating on three of the four topics that you mention as they are aligned with huge business interests.

That's a nice curated list. COVID origins didn't make the cut? lol