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@davidzweig: 1. THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE – By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy – By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed – By...…
The weaponizing of AI in this way is even more concerning than the propaganda campaign itself. We're entering a new age of information warfare before anyone's even adapted to the previous weaponry.
It's not even weaponizing it (not properly). This is actually wildly lazy programming.
To be honest, the FBI's cultivation of the moderators themselves is closer to what happened with the AI: overwhelm the moderation system with reports, and try to slant their enforcement by telling them they aren't doing enough, or that they did it wrong, with your "experts".
The AI and the people were actually treated the same way.