People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened (2015)

I just looked it up and it seems you are right. But I find it strange that "2%-10%" is considered rare, that's certainly more than I expected.

1. https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/health/services/promotion/...

AI is not necessary to make your population believe the Big Lie - in fact, by applying a consistent false narrative to an entire group, you get reinforcement effects by more impressionable members of the group towards those with a greater resistance.

This has been used, repeatedly, through history.

Now, where AI could be applied would be in having a tailored, sculpted false narrative for each and every subject, which could be used for mass sentiment manipulation - profile each target, determine the ideal narrative to achieve the desired emotional and behavioural outcome, implant, rinse and repeat.

Could be used for nefarious purposes, could be used for benign purposes - although it’s hard to see anything that involves the mass brainwashing of a population as benign. Perhaps it would be useful for deprogramming - undoing the effects of the currently prevalent methods where desirable, such as indoctrinated cult members, dictator worshippers, and religious zealots - but right there in my postulating you see scope creep, and that’s why it’s almost inevitable this will end up being applied for marketing and programming purposes.

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- 2x30 participants - Not chosen at random - No double blinding - Plenty of leeway for influence by conductors of experiment

I'm not convinced these results can be generalized into more than: some researchers could trick 60 handpicked students into seemingly believing a false memory for a short period of time. Let's wait if this is reproducible.

I don’t understand your argument. “People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened” The test subject were people, they got convinced.

They are not claiming that everyone under every circumstance can be convinced they commited any crime.

Even if it can only happen sometimes to some people under some circumstances that would be of great importance to the process of justice.

I don't need convincing. When something bad happens, I always feel responsible.