Control:
By adding rules to AI output, the ruling elite seek to regain what the internet took from them: Information control. Some scandal happens? AI monitoring erases all indication of it, or pushes the narrative in the desired direction.
We have easy evidence of that on the Canada subreddit. Trudeau, for his faults, was unequivocally the single friendliest prime minister to Alberta that the country ever had, considerably more so than the hack that was Harper. But thanks to astroturfing and media control, the conservatives of Alberta see him as one of the worst.
Monetization of big data.
The other that I can see is that AI can solve end of the big data issue. Sure, big data has reams and reams of data. But they’ve had trouble processing it and turning it into useful monetizable information/product. Even Google admits that for all of their data on everyone, their clickthrough rates are atrocious. The hope is that AI can sort through those massive data sets and give them the easy data they want.
They had just as much control with the old search algorithm, though. They could still pick and choose what you see on the search results with their opaque algorithm. The only difference would be that instead of only showing some regime captured media outlet they could generate there own narrative on the fly, but it’s not like there’s a shortage of sycophantic media written by actual people they could pull from.
I dont think so, since with the algorithms a vaguely saavy user can work around them, and it has to wait for the crawlers to run, tag sites and process the tags.
My 2c:
Control:
By adding rules to AI output, the ruling elite seek to regain what the internet took from them: Information control. Some scandal happens? AI monitoring erases all indication of it, or pushes the narrative in the desired direction.
We have easy evidence of that on the Canada subreddit. Trudeau, for his faults, was unequivocally the single friendliest prime minister to Alberta that the country ever had, considerably more so than the hack that was Harper. But thanks to astroturfing and media control, the conservatives of Alberta see him as one of the worst.
Monetization of big data. The other that I can see is that AI can solve end of the big data issue. Sure, big data has reams and reams of data. But they’ve had trouble processing it and turning it into useful monetizable information/product. Even Google admits that for all of their data on everyone, their clickthrough rates are atrocious. The hope is that AI can sort through those massive data sets and give them the easy data they want.
They had just as much control with the old search algorithm, though. They could still pick and choose what you see on the search results with their opaque algorithm. The only difference would be that instead of only showing some regime captured media outlet they could generate there own narrative on the fly, but it’s not like there’s a shortage of sycophantic media written by actual people they could pull from.
I dont think so, since with the algorithms a vaguely saavy user can work around them, and it has to wait for the crawlers to run, tag sites and process the tags.
AI streamlines that process.