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CCP was a very strong grip here.

I’m going to get crucified for what I’m going to say. But here is when I noticed it. A few years ago lemmy was one of the only places AI was getting hated on very hard. Like other places had some small posts or conversations but they were pretty mature. But lemmy was hateful.

What I noticed was that it reminded me of something at the tip of my tongue. Then it hit me. The posts were all the same posts I saw in republican spaces. Like word for word same headline. Same energy, same bullshit. Except instead of immigrants it was AI.

I’m going to stop you people right there because I know what the fuck the comments will be already. So just stop. This isn’t a comment about consequences of AI pro or con. It’s a comment about an observation. Something I’ve noticed and the more I saw the more it made sense.

Lemmy was targeted hard and was one of the early generators of anti AI sentiment. It was impressive. What made it all make sense is that as much as we hate AI, it’s here. It’s not going away. Like any new frontier, the people who are first to new land will become the powerful and rich for the next generation. If I’m not fast enough, maybe I can make others slower. If we know CCP is here. And we know countries are trying to race their industries to build new patents and innovations in this new frontier, then it makes sense why such a small site like lemmy full of early adopters was targeted. It’s why posts were reminiscent of the astro turfing we all saw in republican spaces about immigrants. It’s not the there are not problems its about amplification, framing and narrative building.

CCP want western nationals to be behind the ball on innovation. They contributed massively to pushing stories easily on about AI taking jobs, raping your women and stealing our way of life. So if you really want to so CCP in action then search up the early AI posts here if they haven’t already scrubbed them.