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Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI
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#22Full title: "Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI — created by a guy in India who made a mint off lonely men online". Despite MAGA fans making him rich, he still looks down on them, calling them “super-dumb.” He said he also attempted to make a liberal counterpart for Hart on Instagram, but “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much,” he said. “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people — like, su…
Perhaps the easier explanation is not "dumb" but that MAGA crowd is just older and thus richer so better monetizable by definition.
Who are you trying to convince? /r/conservative?
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#23Is 10k followers a lot?
Low grade “influencers” all parroting similar talking points can have a powerful cumulative effect.
QAnon didn’t go mainstream overnight. It bubbled up.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
yes, that is pretty much what he disclosed in the article > He turned to Google’s Gemini AI for advice and decided to create a “hot girl” crafted specifically for the “MAGA/conservative niche,” after the software told him that “the conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal,” according to Wired.
It is kind of crazy that growing up I recall hearing a lot of “be careful don’t trust the internet” and then now that same generation of people is falling for all manner of scams and fake news peddlers online.
Apologies if it seems I'm just stoking a stereotype, but this comes from personal experience with family. For a demographic who generally are proud to be "old school", "not computer people", skeptical, distrustful of technology, self-reliant, and at least paid lip service to those ideals when raising their children, they sure do love being lied to and manipulated by the very enemies they claimed to be resistant to.
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#25> trying to save up enough to emigrate to the US after graduation.
Come on over you'll fit right in!
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#26If you apply 2nd order thinking to this story it's easy to see how dangerous AI in combination with social media is. It's worrying that so few care about this issue. How is it possible to have reliable elections or a functioning democracy if people are this easily manipulated and fooled. It was always easy to fool some people but social med powered by AI makes it ridiculously easy and cheap to do mass social engineer…
Meh. The Internet has always had a high noise floor, AI here just takes an existing problem and makes it slightly worse.
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#27Is 10k followers a lot?
10,000 followers within a month
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#28I was just thinking the other day how ai will be way worse than social media in terms of influencing people. Before though I was thinking of times people have been convinced by chat bots they were god or a genius.
Social media was so powerful because it convinced people their world view was popular and correct even if it definitely wasn’t, but at least then it was actually happening somewhere. This is just completely made up, to feed into people’s world view, and they don’t even have to find the perfect figure they can make one up.
We’re definitely going to suffer a lot before it gets better. Interesting times we’re living in.
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#29That explains the strategy used by the current US administration. They ask ChatGPT what to do. And this then happen. The output is stupid chaos. Can we sue the responsible administration? I mean globally - they need to pay for the damage here. Inflation already went up significantly in the EU. Why do Europeans have to suffer due to the orange AI king?
I really don’t think AI has anything to do with the current US administration behavior. If not with AI, they would do the same
Really, you think Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg bought a president and don't have instructions for him regarding their investments in AI?
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#30Full title: "Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI — created by a guy in India who made a mint off lonely men online". Despite MAGA fans making him rich, he still looks down on them, calling them “super-dumb.” He said he also attempted to make a liberal counterpart for Hart on Instagram, but “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much,” he said. “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people — like, su…
Perhaps the easier explanation is not "dumb" but that MAGA crowd is just older and thus richer so better monetizable by definition.
No, the same pattern showed up during the 2016 election when direct monetization wasn't the goal. The Russians were throwing bipartisan spaghetti at the wall, their biggest hit in MAGA land was "Pope Endorses Donald Trump," which went mega-viral, while their biggest hit with the Dems was "Elizabeth Warren Endorses Bernie Sanders," which was a comparative flop.