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dgauss

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2. I've long worried about search engines like Google becoming politically corrupted.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Mar 14, 2025, 08:46 PM

Mar 14

People have such a reliance on search engines for trying to understand things and tend to believe whatever pops up.

Can you think of a better way to control what people think and believe than to control the results of google searches? A government truly committed to propaganda would understand this and see such control as incredibly powerful. AI algorithms will make crafting skewed search outcomes more and more easy.

I think we will be dealing with this sometime in our near future.

(My dystopian thought for the day...)

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Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove 'Ideological Bias' From Powerful Models [View all] highplainsdem Mar 14 OP

Greed, corruption, crime, hatred. The new American value system. Irish_Dem Mar 14 #1

I've long worried about search engines like Google becoming politically corrupted. dgauss Mar 14 #2

Do these idiots not know that bias works both ways? Initech Mar 14 #3

WHAT ideological bias? PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 14 #4

Google CEO? Sundar Pichai. Not exactly a white name. But I get your point. SomewhereInTheMiddle Mar 15 #9

Otherwise known as divorced from reality, which has a well-known "liberal bias." Karasu Mar 14 #5

Idiot! LudwigPastorius Mar 14 #6

In a war of strategy/warfighting/competing AIs, wouldn't one side have an advantage if it knew the limitations of the ot Norrrm Mar 14 #7

The list of individuals' obituaries I'd like to read grows by leaps and bounds. Phoenix61 Mar 14 #8

Oh I hope that bites them in the ass hard intrepidity Mar 15 #10