This paper written by researchers from Stanford and Google details the human-mimicking machine learning tech that has and continues to permeate ever expanding facets of the human experience.
The potentials for manipulating and engineering the individual and greater society are absolutely mind blowing.
I see this tech applied in the context of the ‘bots’ populating dead internet theory, the theories behind AI calling the shots for corporate media, purposes of the elusive concept that we call the ‘metavere’, the general degraded state of societal self awareness, and the constructed psychological arrested development that has become a human baseline.
The paper seems to be present this tech as some fun and useful video game upgrade, but I see it differently.
Human mimicking tech exists for one reason, and that to simulate human connection, in many cases becoming a surrogate for human connection. When society is engineered to destroy genuine human connection and come in with a replacement that is trickled in like the slow rising heat in the pot that the frog is sitting in, something is happening.
h/t LucyLucid