Attention. Today Online It’s Easy to Make Us Believe an Idea Is Supported by “Everyone,” Even When It Isn’t
Thousands of comments cheering it on. Thousands of likes. You see that and you adjust your opinion. Now that kind of consensus is easy to fake, because it’s often not people talking. It’s networks of autonomous Artificial Intelligence agents writing, replying, arguing, applauding, attacking, 24/7.
Consensus becomes something you can copy. You read the same comment a hundred times, you see a thousand likes, the mood feels set. Some people follow it. Some stay silent. Some get angry.
Tools anyone can use can flood social platforms and forums with credible profiles: photos, stories, natural language, human mistakes, jokes, rage, even warmth. And they can push thousands of posts. No need for one big “media lie” like the old days. Small phrases, same direction, are enough.
Whoever controls these networks can steer them for or against anything. One message to one group, a different one to another group. Manipulation becomes scalable, personalized, and invisible. Finding who’s behind it is hard: campaigns spread across thousands of nodes and platforms slow everything down.
We still judge individual people by reputation, while what we need are global rules: traceability for coordinated campaigns, real transparency obligations for anyone using networks of autonomous agents to influence public opinion and democratic processes. And the platforms? They don’t look in a hurry.
What do you think?
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