China has billions of people and a one party authoritarian government. They can easily employ millions of people to pretend to be people in other countries online at a breathtaking level. They do this to drive conversations on every single large social media platform.
Similarly, multinational corporations have billions of dollars and can spend it tasking general artificial intelligence programs to create content online. Artificial Intelligence has arrived, and it's so realistic and persuasively human that people can't actually believe it's really just a computer.
That's why everything you read sounds foreign or disjointed.
The advantages of the Chinese propagandist or Artificial Intelligence algorithm is that they pursue their goal completely free of emotion. They do not fight the rules and moderation policies of different platforms. Agents and AI alike can specialize in disrupting conversation in one difficult context because they're are millions of them spread around social media working constantly to influence public conversation.
They come in the form of Facebook meme pages, instagram accounts, popular reddit moderators, verified Twitter users.
You and I use social media to reach across the void and try to connect, to regain the feeling of shared humanity. But everyone else is using it to weaponize your emotions against their opponents.
It's terrifyingly certain because it's terrifyingly obvious. The AIs exist, our world runs on the trends of social media filled with anonymous users claiming to be American. The authoritarian countries and capitalist megacorporations (what's the difference anyway?) have no choice but to invade the internet and torture and manipulate their enemies.
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