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0 pointssandworm1011y ago0 comments

If your algorithm can convince large numbers kids to snort cinnamon and eat tide pods for dinner, bending their perceptions enough for them to vote or not vote for something would be a piece of cake.

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fallingfrog1y ago

That’s just the worst reasoning I’ve ever heard. Your if.. then statement just doesn’t logically follow.

Honestly this whole thing reeks of the satanic panic type moral scares of the 80’s or the anti communist rhetoric of the 60’s repackaged in new form. Moral panic over something or other is an American tradition; right now it’s tiktok but god knows why.

Set yourself a reminder to come back to this comment in 10 years once the fervor has died down and you will read your own comments with bafflement.

sandworm101OP1y ago

Lol. Such manipulation is happening now, has been for over a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

"Using what it called "behavioral microtargeting" the company indicated that it could predict "needs" of subjects and how these needs may change over time. Services then could be individually targeted for the benefit of its clients from the political arena, governments and companies, providing "a better and more actionable view of their key audiences."

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