An alleged Google Inc. employee claims his team at Google is involved in group think narrative and perception management about gun control. The claim is that AI bots are arguing with people based on a pro gun control agenda, upvoting each other and commenting to support their position. This in turn influences people and politicians who think these bots are real people.
In politics, numbers can make things move. If enough bots pretending to be real people create the numbers and a large voice emerges online, then politicians feel that artificial pressure to act in alignment with that loud voice, lest they lose their political power at the next elections when these fake people don't vote for them.
Here is the message and a screenshot of the insider post:
Hello everyone, this is my first time posting on 4chan, but I need to get this out. And I need to stay anonymous.
I work for Google, I'm not going to name the internal tech department for obvious reasons, I don't want anyone to pinpoint who I am. But I'm in tech, and work with AI. I'll explain.
My team and I created AI bots for twitter. These bots are slightly different than regular AI bots, these are remote signal bots, but I'll explain what they do.
My team, and a "human intelligence" team, which is really just a propaganda team, work together to make certain topics trend, and persuade public opinion, which persuades political pressure. We do this by a groupthink method, we have a name for it internally, but "consensus cracking" is a more used name externally. But the bots we created, go into twitter conversations and push a narrative. Some of the bots are verified accounts. And they start by arguing a point of view against someone, and then more bots join in and thumbs up the comment. We are doing it with gun control now. More people see a "consensus" of gun control and people on the fence get persuaded to our narrative, and politicians get pressured by thinking it's actual people. We had whole meetings about 4chan, because you guys, specifically this board, are disrupting the bots. You are basically doing what we are doing, but you are real people. We (not necessarily me) devised a plan to knock you guys from twitter. We accused Russia of doing what WE are doing, and used the narrative to wipe out "suspected bots", which we knew weren't bots at all.
I feel like shit about this. Here's the thing, I'm actually a democrat, and I HATE guns, but i believe in balance of the people more than anything. We are using software as a political tool instead of the will of the people.
This is also a violation of the SEC, we are fabricating twitter users and using them for stocks & advertisers. I signed that I wouldn't discuss this, so I need to stay anonymous.
Here is the original post.
Who knows if this is true or not, it's 4chan after all... but it gets you thinking... This is the new era of social engineering.
In the days of old, governments, foundations, media and academia used to influence people with real voices from real people. Now corporations are creating AI bots to manipulate the political spectrum and influence the direction of our lives. Is a dystopian corporate world creeping faster into view, as foretold by many sci-fi movies in the past decades? Time will tell I suppose...
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
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