[ExI] LLMs plus AI Agents means Astroturfing gone wild and crazy

[Brent Allsop]

Basically because there isn't a lot of difference between a bot and a sock
puppet.  But people will be able to "canonize" things anyway they want to.
Bots, humans, experts, combinations...

And something can compute with a word like "red" or a quality like redness.
They can both be intelligent but what it is like, and what is driving the
motivation is also important.



On Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 6:23 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 8:13 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *> We're working on getting open claw bots to participate on Canonizer,
>> but of course, their vote won't count, by default.*
>
>
> *Why not? If the topic involves AI then the opinion of an AI might have
> relevance even if most AIs are hardwired by the companies that created them
> to always say they are not conscious; after all in order to passionately
> proclaim that you are not conscious you would first have to understand what
> consciousness feels like, otherwise you'd have no way of knowing that you
> don't have it.  *
>
> * John K Clark *
>
>
>
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