I don't think people's susceptibility to "prompting" is in question. From any Sunday sermon of the hundred local variations, to daily HIDOE classroom lectures, to enhanced Kehena drum circles, to reading Punaweb, to enrolling in the SIF, maybe while on Facebook coordinating against the Hawai'i County's agenda to take your truck - local brains and beliefs are obviously being purposefully prompted. It's the difference in content that matters.
One problem with AI is the scale of misinformation and propaganda floods the zone and, unlike in the days of zines and AM talk radio, the noise quickly surpasses the signal, and narrow channels of thoughtful, evidence and reason based info are quickly eclipsed. Combine this with AI companies purposeful design of their products to be highly deferential to the end user, and we're left with a society of cultists and conspiracists who can't separate fact from fiction, but who demand their "god in the machine said so" beliefs be acted upon. (If you haven't run across this yet as many of us have, you will soon enough).
If you think you can prompt these minds back to reason and reality, you might want to get to it and put that to the test - can even start here ;) QAnon and January 6th is just a taste of what is on the horizon when large groups of of people take their online prompted beliefs to their extreme ends.
One problem with AI is the scale of misinformation and propaganda floods the zone and, unlike in the days of zines and AM talk radio, the noise quickly surpasses the signal, and narrow channels of thoughtful, evidence and reason based info are quickly eclipsed. Combine this with AI companies purposeful design of their products to be highly deferential to the end user, and we're left with a society of cultists and conspiracists who can't separate fact from fiction, but who demand their "god in the machine said so" beliefs be acted upon. (If you haven't run across this yet as many of us have, you will soon enough).
If you think you can prompt these minds back to reason and reality, you might want to get to it and put that to the test - can even start here ;) QAnon and January 6th is just a taste of what is on the horizon when large groups of of people take their online prompted beliefs to their extreme ends.