A few things I that I find not quite convincing: micro targeting, long term connection, slow changes, nudges, usability outside of just message - so that the connection is maintained by the person, profiling.
Lets imagine that some entity would provide a servce for free (or very cheap), that does something useful, but also because of lots of interactions has a lot of time to gently push some idea. And also collect all the interaction history to make this interaction more efficient. Sure, one message wont do it. But thousands of messages, over many months, highly personalized, context adapted, personality infused, would convince even me.
Surely we are far away from AI being so easily available to just access it from your phone, it being able to remember your previous requests, it being just smart enough to nudge you a little every time, it being sufficiently advance to form an illusion of personality. That wont happen during our lifetime, right?
Im not so worried about establishment vs opposition, because as you say, they both can do the same. What I am worried is the general course of action. What will both of them do? And if both of them will resort to tactics I described, the democracy will change significantly.
A few things I that I find not quite convincing: micro targeting, long term connection, slow changes, nudges, usability outside of just message - so that the connection is maintained by the person, profiling.
Lets imagine that some entity would provide a servce for free (or very cheap), that does something useful, but also because of lots of interactions has a lot of time to gently push some idea. And also collect all the interaction history to make this interaction more efficient. Sure, one message wont do it. But thousands of messages, over many months, highly personalized, context adapted, personality infused, would convince even me.
Surely we are far away from AI being so easily available to just access it from your phone, it being able to remember your previous requests, it being just smart enough to nudge you a little every time, it being sufficiently advance to form an illusion of personality. That wont happen during our lifetime, right?
Im not so worried about establishment vs opposition, because as you say, they both can do the same. What I am worried is the general course of action. What will both of them do? And if both of them will resort to tactics I described, the democracy will change significantly.