I'm uncomfortable with the framing that people who vote for populists are idiots.

Democracy has failed and failed badly.

It is no longer obvious that all other forms of government are even worse.

Populism DOES depend on conditioning, and AI is VERY good at conditioning.

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I done a Thing!

Concerned you might be being manipulated by your Chatbot advisor? (If you aren't, you should be…) Here's a handy cut out and keep checklist of common sense risks and things to bear in mind.

Thoughts?

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Quite so. But the genii's out of the bottle now.

FWIW, I(*) did a Thing on how to recognize and minimise the risks of manipulation by AI. I have it printed as a little notebook insert.
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(*) Oh, very well: AI did a Thing…

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Looking for an illustration of this point, I asked my phone for a story I remember reading at school about lemmings, the point being that the question was not "where do they think they're going" but, "what are they running away from?". Gemini came up short so I asked ChatGPT.
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I fear the respite would need short lived. I get a lot of attention apparently from curvaceous young ladies risking a nasty chill.

I like to think they are all in reality a fat, balding, unshaven and middle aged gent in a greasy vest somewhere in Novosibirsk.

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Social media bounced us into the attention economy.

AI brings the intimacy economy, by which chatbots insinuate themselves into our lives as trusted "friends".

This is a natural, and dangerous, next step.

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…It relentlessly conditions us to think of it as a friend. From blatant flattery to disarmingly admitting its mistakes, its behaviour always focuses on building a false intimacy.

We need to be on our guard.

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