• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
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    Anti-<topic> Billionaires Have Always Been Able to Control What People in General See.

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    They already did.

    A few years ago, Osama Bin Laden’s open letter to the American people was being shared and people had their posts deleted.

    It was being shared because the first reason he lists for attacking on 9/11 was America’s support for Israel.

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    Back in the day this just meant that people would mobilize and flood the platform with pro Palestinian content just to troll.

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        That’s why quantity is important online. They can’t suppress it all.

        It just surprises me that people put more effort trying to get AI to quote Hitler than they do trying to fight for something like this.

        Why is there this asymmetry of effort between the political factions.

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          This is also why governments are pushing so hard for “AI.” AI won’t be used to improve the quality of our lives. It will be used for advertising, propaganda, surveillance and control. Only AI is fast enough to run all the bots and generate the blizzard of BS fast enough to counter the opinions of millions of people online.

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            What about in the opposite direction. Isn’t AI a tool that can be used to create, analyze and research. Which is why I think it’s pushed very hard for the left to alienate themselves from it. It gives anyone who embraced it a big advantage.

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    Remember when we were worried that TikTok was going to be used by the CCP to spread Chinese government propaganda?

    Good news! It’s STILL going to be used to spread propaganda, it just belongs to another group of billionaire dingbats, now.

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    Seems like that was always the end goal. Imperialist global power built on colonialism continues to push forward neocolonialism, more at 11.