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The bigger concern here is that tech companies and governments can now use this to shape conversations, social attitudes and forge consent with the touch of a button.
For example: if you read a big reddit post that has thousands of comments, and everyone in the comments are saying how ridiculous it is to think the sky isn't green, you're going to say "What the hell is everyone talking about? The sky is blue." And then 40 very real-seeming people in comments pile on you and make fun of you, call you crazy or stupid, tell you that you're either dumb or you don't know the names of colors, tell you that you're a member of some group you've never heard of before, send you links even to a site that explains talks about people like you who don't know what color the sky is, etc. etc.
Well, you're going to probably feel really strange and maybe even go outside to look up and make sure. Even if you don't actually change your mind and accept the sky is green, enough social pressure got you to question something you know deeply to be true. (Sorry if you're colorblind, but the idea stands.)
That's something major that's easy to confirm and it will still seed doubt in some segment of the population. What about less obvious things? What about political agendas, wars and ethnic cleansing? "race science" and other tools of fascism?
Imagine if you see three top posts a week talking about how useful it is having cameras upload all your daily data to a mysterious new tech company "Wow, Ritnelap's new full house surveillance system caught another burglar trying to break into my house last night!" "Yah, same! These systems are great, I don't know how I lived without them before!"
And on and on.
I agree. I think this essay also touches upon what you are saying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-edYoZZosg
It's really dystopian to me, how the training and implementations of LLMs seem to be fueling otherization online.