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IMO Grok is showing that Elmo wants to use LLM to manipulate public opinion.
I bet he has it also deployed as a "regular people" on Twitter and social media. I'm sure Zuckerberg and others do the same.
Isn't it interesting that all companies invested in social media are now heavily invested in AI?
He doesn't even need to deploy it as "regular people" himself.
Other companies, governments, and hell, even individuals are already deploying bots by the thousands just to shift public opinion. It's why under any post sharing any political opinion, you'll usually see a flurry of bots designed to trap users into lengthy chains of responses that try to shift sentiment on things like Israel's genocide in Gaza, Trump's billionaire-benefitting tax policies, etc.
Flood public discourse enough, and the bandwagon fallacy becomes an extremely strong force to shift public opinion. All a billionaire has to do is spend a few thousand dollars on API credits, and they can make thousands or even millions of people at least second guess their beliefs, if not conform outright to what's being espoused by the bots.
On a platform like X, where the majority of people left are just reactionaries, grifters, and conspiracy theorists, this kind of thing isn't just financially incentivized, it's practically encouraged by design.
(Although I wouldn't be surprised if we found out he was directly seeding these bot networks himself either)