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This is a propaganda machine. Its targeting people individually to recruit them to an idea. Its a level of social engineering that Ive never seen before. Theyre capturing people and then keeping them on an emotional leash and never letting them go, said professor Jonathan Albright.
Albright, an assistant professor and data scientist at Elon University, started digging into fake news sites after Donald Trump was elected president. Through extensive research and interviews with Albright and other key experts in the field, including Samuel Woolley, Head of Research at Oxford Universitys Computational Propaganda Project, and Martin Moore, Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at Kings College, it became clear to Scout that this phenomenon was about much more than just a few fake news stories. It was a piece of a much bigger and darker puzzle -- a Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine being used to manipulate our opinions and behavior to advance specific political agendas.
By leveraging automated emotional manipulation alongside swarms of bots, Facebook dark posts, A/B testing, and fake news networks, a company called Cambridge Analytica has activated an invisible machine that preys on the personalities of individual voters to create large shifts in public opinion. Many of these technologies have been used individually to some effect before, but together they make up a nearly impenetrable voter manipulation machine that is quickly becoming the new deciding factor in elections around the world.
Most recently, Analytica helped elect U.S. President Donald Trump, secured a win for the Brexit Leave campaign, and led Ted Cruzs 2016 campaign surge, shepherding him from the back of the GOP primary pack to the front.
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https://www.scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine
joshcryer
(62,277 posts)And yes, Russia and Trump are tied to it zone through known channels.
I searched for this topic before posting, but missed your posts.