OpenAI has published a report about ChatGPT users, who it says were likely based in China, that used the chatbot to plan a campaign designed to sway Americans’ opinions about AI data centers.
It divided the users into two clusters, the first of which it had designated the “Data Center Bandwagon” group. Accounts categorized in the group allegedly asked ChatGPT to generate English-language talking points and images, such as comic strips, which focus on how AI data centers drive up demand in electricity and how that leads to higher bills for consumers.
The company says these users posed as Americans from a variety of backgrounds on social media, where they had posted the text and image output they got from ChatGPT. OpenAI believes they’re part of a social media team at a private Chinese company working for local government clients. They apparently even uploaded a file to the chatbot describing their objectives and strategies on how to sway public opinion and how to establish fake social media accounts without getting detected.
The media campaigns have been massive. Even on Lemmy, 1/4 of the content is anti AI. Do you guys really think that’s organic?
As an organic who knows other organics, yeah?
Do you think the people booing AI at commencement speeches were Chinese?
In response to 100% of products having AI shoehorned into them for no fucking reason at all? In response to people like Peter Thiel calling anyone who criticizes AI as “being in league with the Antichrist?” In response to countless examples of multinational corporations ramming their projects through in tiny ass towns against the wishes of all the residents? In response to electrical utility companies telling entire cities that they’re not going to supply them power anymore because they’re going to route it to data centers instead? Yes. Yes I do think it’s organic.
What’s your argument for people organically supporting any of the above bullshit? What do AI/LLMs offer your average person that outweighs all the negatives?