‹ BackHN Continuity

Thread

AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds

139 points · 105 comments · rbanffy

  1. intended · · focus · HN ↗
    > Floridi has a counterintuitive solution: Release more of them. “Simply put, if you cannot avoid it, then make it pluralistic and diversified,” he writes in his 2024 paper. “It would be a messy, cacophonic, and noisy world, but it could also be less manipulative.”

    Hell no. More choice is not an infinite money glitch.

    Putting more and more and more options to users is how you overwhelm systems, till people simply perform the default, least challenging action as a reflex.

    That is the current state of the information ecosystem, it is controlled by overwhelming consumers, not by controlling content.

Open on Hacker News to reply ↗

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.