PSA:

Did you and your loved ones know that Twitter is comically overrun with machine-learning-enabled, automated, swarming, feed-destroying, thread-mute-necessitating, time-raping, discord-sowing, set-it-up-and-forget-it bots using ease of #GPT2? https://www.engadget.com/amp/2019-06-05-subreddit-simulator-gpt-2-bots.html

So...

Maybe it’s worth keeping in mind the following:

If you find yourself swayed by, riled up because of or influenced by a no-face, vague-verified-mentioning, small-follower count-having, quirky-avatar-using profile that keeps seemingly coming back for more (!) is to be a true mark.

And for the anecdotal-evidence-advancing,
professional propagandists who want to swoop in & say “I’M REAL MANDY and also HOW DARE YOU and HERE IS MY CHILD CRYING” or whatever, yes, just like Michael Moore attended a rally amplified/created by Russian trolls targeting extremists.

Here is how-to on thread muting when you see #botswarming happening & want to give yourself the gift of doing literally anyfucking thing else with your life. Or you can fall for the trap of probably the oldest battle trick of all time (divide and conquer): https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-mute-options

We don’t like to think we can be influenced by our confirmation biases or our primal imperfect humanity. It is certainty that makes us weak. We all have pain points. Bad faith individuals hook you if you’re terrified of your humanity—then watch you flop around like a hooked fish.

It’s also hard to wrap your head around just how good #naturallanguageprocessing ( #nlp) #machinelearning #deeplearning technology truly is today. Hal from 2001 still seems scifi. Replacing writers with a computer feels insane, right? Nope. It’s happening. https://www.inc.com/betsy-mikel/this-ai-bot-writes-such-convincing-ads-chase-just-hired-it-to-write-marketing-copy.html

Developers can play with @OpenAI #GPT2 dataset on @github with Python.

BUT you can ALSO know zero computer skills and try it out using http://talktotransformer.com . Type in one sentence and it completes the story. Many times it’s terrible. Sometimes it’s jarringly poetic or on point.

Please tell folks about this if you can.

Yeah, I know, I know. People know about “bots” but they don’t *realize* that these human-simulating chat-bots are so automated that they can bicker and ad hominem and overshare in the same way that an actual human does. But on autopilot.

Case study: Ron receives 100s of organic amplifications. Then some people get in and disagree. All good so far.

But then...someone decides to see if they can flip the hivemind ratio.

Boom. They release a programmed cluster, imitating quarreling snarling hungry ghosts online.

This is done to make you question your perception of yourself—and your values.

It’s tech being used to kill your spirit via death-by-a-1000-cuts infringement on health, happiness, time & beliefs.

A slow-burn MKUltra unpersoning through trauma-obliteration of identity and self.

The reason I think this is impt to talk about is that while many Zoomers immediately intuit this tech-cognitive trap—& learn to tune it out, some don’t know it. And they become targets. A conjunctive predator can then target the same kid once they are primed broken & susceptible.

Here’s the funniest screen grab I think I took of the swarm I just watched... Note the juxtaposition btwn my explanation of how AI bot language can be sort of jarringly poetic—WITH a bot being...jarringly poetic.

In its broken automated uncanny valley conversational sort of way.

What I’m about to show you is by far the most damning part of this entire manipulation of your mind and resilience to strife.

Because this is also done by #CCP.

This is China’s instructions for how to spend hours fucking with, antagonizing and demoralizing the American people.

Please watch this. It’s jaw dropping. Yuri Bezmenov, former USSR propagandist & defector to US, laying out decades ago the psychological warfare that constitutes 85% of cold-war, longgame ideological subversion tactics—ultimately resulting in a weak fractured American collective.

Part 2.

On bad actors and well intentioned amplifiers and acolytes who preach theory as reality to create perpetual insanity, long-tail chaos, nihilism & weakness. “These people are contaminated. You cannot even change their mind when you expose them to authentic information.”

Part 3.

“The demoralization process in the US is basically completed already. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards. Exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information.”

Part 4. Note use of word conspiracy. He uses as definition states: “In criminal law an agreement btwn 2 or more persons to commit a crime in the future.“ The word now, coupled w “theory” or even standalone, has been totally recast. It is now associatively a slur. Social leprosy.

“Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.” —Sun Tzu, Art of War.

How? Endless methods...

Witheringly punitive organized social shaming in response to any manner of critical inquiry. Popularized anti-intellectualism. Seize on pain points such as race and sex and relentlessly hit them again and again and again. Destroy America’s loyalty and humanity toward one another.

Target those who are in fact in the most pain & assess how they may be of use to you in achieving your ultimate ends. Could you unleash the forces of one hotbed of anger against another? Occupy each other in endless battles of bureaucratic bickering over what objective truth is.

From the PRE-9/11 Hollywood system, see 2000 Wesley Snipes film "Art of War."

"Ever watch wrestling, Ray? Because this is just like wrestling. It's reality, mixed with illusion, mixed with bullshit, mixed with big scary guys from parts unknown, in dire need of psychiatric care.”

Are you familiar with the five-time Emmy winning journalist @SharylAttkisson?

Indisputably qualified with endless verifieds that establish her credibility and authenticity as a trustworthy source and expert for news.

Well, she is also a whistleblower.

Consider the following.

“What is astroturf?” @SharylAttkisson asks us. “It’s a perversion of grassroots. Special interests disguise themselves and publish blogs, start Facebook accounts, or post comments online to try to fool you into thinking an independent movement is speaking.”

“Astroturf seeks to manipulate you into changing your opinion by making you feel as if you’re an outlier when you’re not,” @SharylAttkisson explains.

Pretty effective when leaning into human pain points; pride, arrogance, deeply intimate shame, and fear of “exposure” as a fraud.

Watch this entire thing. Think about the ramifications.

This is @sharylattkisson. 4-time Emmy winner. Trusted journalist.

She is exposing the #astroturfing and weaponized #demoralization used relentlessly by #CCP and #psychopaths.

A hack of humanity.

Anyone who has means to build social network w/ a non-partisan verification company such as @Veriff has ability to be final word on usable social.

Twitter is overrun with propaganda spam.

This is an excerpt from a note to an associate.

Whoever can spearhead should. It’s vital.