Comment on When the nice guy
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The B-plot in Ender’s Game tells a compelling story of a couple of young adults nefariously posting their way straight into the Presidency. And people want to believe this is how real life works so badly that they’ll watch a plutocrat elevated by other plutocrats into an office historically held by plutocrats and conclude “Shitposters on the internet did this”.
TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 3 days ago
xkcd.com/635/
But to be fair Ender’s Game was written in 1985, before the modern internet.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I mean with LLM’s it’s not hard to have an arbitrary amount of bots posing as users pushing a false consensus on political issues.
It’s even easier when the bot accounts are used to falsify advertising data.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Shockingly accurate depiction of what bloggers think they’re doing