Google’s AI-driven Search Generative Experience have been generating results that are downright weird and evil, ie slavery’s positives.

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    He was able to convince the majority that his way of thinking was the right way to go and deployed a plan to that effect

    So, you’re basically saying an effective leader is someone who can convince people to go along with them for a sustained period. Jim Jones was an effective leader by that metric. Which I would dispute. So was the guy who led the Donner Party to their deaths.

    This is why I see a problem with this. You and I are able to discuss this and work out what each other means.

    But in a world where people are time-poor and critical thinking takes time, errors based on fundamental misunderstandings of consensual meanings can flourish.

    And the speed and sheer amount of global digital communication means that they can be multiplied and compounded in ways that individual fact checkers will not be able to challenge sucessfully.