[ExI] Twitter to develop own AI for self-defence

[William Flynn Wallace]

Here we go again with word definitions:  what counts as manipulation?  How
does anybody, AI or I, distinguish between propaganda and education?
Propaganda is often what is left out, not what is put in - like one-sided
arguments.   Education often leaves out the bad things about our history.
Is that propaganda?    bill w

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 8:42 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> ...> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
> Subject: [ExI] Twitter to develop own AI for self-defence
>
> >...Twitter to thwart ‘manipulation of public opinion’ with AI, says Elon
> Musk It is unknown if this is linked to Musk's rumored hiring of an AI team
> to combat ChatGPT influence.
> Baba Tamim   Mar 19, 2023
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> https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/twitter-to-thwart-manipulation-with-ai
> >
> Quote:
> Elon Musk, owner and CEO of Twitter, will employ artificial intelligence
> to thwart attempts to sway public opinion on the social platform.
>
> >...The move to deploy AI could help combat "manipulation" on Twitter,
> according to the business magnate.
>
> "In the months ahead, we will use AI to detect & highlight manipulation of
> public opinion on this platform," said the tech billionaire in a tweet on
> Saturday.
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>
> >...Is this the start of a war between competing AI bots?
>
> BillK
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> Thx BillK, this should be interesting.  Musk is a co-owner of ChatGPT, and
> is by far the richest of its co-owners.
>
> Musk's tweet last week said he was going to make Twitter open source on 31
> March, presumably this year.  That means anyone who is dissatisfied with
> Twitter can go make their own social network using free software.  Software
> hipsters, is that what he means by open source?
>
> Yesterday's Twitter Files 19 by Matt Taibbi was most astonishing:
>
>
> https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729166631432195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1636729166631432195%7Ctwgr%5Ef4baeea58f085331472661b9ee4687d8b72929a2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themainewire.com%2F2023%2F03%2Ffeds-stanford-social-media-censored-true-claims-about-covid-19-twitter-files%2F
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> Presumably Musk's AI will stop Taibbi from posting stuff like Twitter
> Files 19, for it is clearly influencing public opinion (hey, TF19 dang sure
> worked on me.)  So Musk plans to deploy AI to stop himself?  I don't even
> need AI.  I can stop myself using ordinary I.
>
> spike
>
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