Comment by delichon
3 months ago
An LLM tuned for charisma and trained on what the power players are saying could play politics by driving a compliant actor like a bot with whispered instructions. AI politicians (etc.) may be hard to spot and impractical to prove.
You could iterate on the best prompts for cult generation as measured by social media feedback. There must be experiments like that going on.
When AI becomes better at politics than people then whatever agents control them control us. When they can make better memes, we've lost.
Fear that TikTok was doing exactly this was widespread enough for Congress to pass a law forbidding it.
Then Trump became President and decided to not enforce the law. His decision may have been helped along by some suspiciously large donations.