K: “A friend recently wrote: It’s like 100 random people wrote a paragraph on an index card in secret. Then someone else collected them, shuffled them multiple times and then read them aloud pretending it was a coherent plot. That is what I think I am hearing every day in the news.”

D: “It’s an interesting quote. Unfortunately, what’s actually going on is far more sophisticated and definitely involves very intentionally circulated deception and toxicity — particularly as related to ‘social media’.

And the agent-intelligences underlying those features are extremely sophisticated, and rely upon up-to-date analytics gathered directly from target populations and their activity. So these systems and those who employ them can ‘correct’ toward extremely successful narrative, media reproduction and behavior manipulation, rapidly.”

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