Joe -
I tried to read the original article, but it seems I've exceeded my 10
free articles for the month and need to sign up for a subscription. I'm
literally holding my $6.00 paper copy of today's NYT of course... and
they don't OFFER home delivery where I live (I've tried, they always
botch it).
That whine out of my system, I have been spammed by e-mails for well
over a year with Trump's name in the subject line... they are *mostly*
oblique... not direct appeals, but rather gobbledeygook like "THIS is
the personal defense tool Trumps Bodyguards carry!", etc. The very
few messages with Hillary's name in the subject line were blatant smears
against her, but they comprised less than 10% of that junk. I rarely
open any of those messages and I think I can say that I *never* followed
any links from them. They were just such blatant horseshit. Of
course, the net effect on my contrarian self was to be way OVER him long
before I suppose some other self-ascribed anarcho-libertarians might
have been.
I got a modest amount of high-signal/noise Bernie mail and since I
signed up for Jill and Gary, got a slightly higher volume of relatively
high signal/noise mail from that quarter too. I don't think I saw a
single piece of smear aimed at any of those three, either directly or by
allusion.
I'm afraid that MANY do respond to this class of junk-mail... simple
name recognition? Trump started with pretty high name recognition and
the media just pumped his name continuously. Not to mention all of US
whining and sneering his name out over and over and over.
I don't care for *any* automated swaying of the vote, even if what seems
to be purveyed is (pro?)information? One blokes pro-information is
another's mis-information I fear. "Push" media is just the wrong
mechanism (IMO) for this kind of stuff. But then maybe our pop culture
has us SO broken and bent that we *can't* handle using *pull* media?
Everything needs to come to us in a stream whether we ask for it or not?
Just sayin'
- Steve
Not sure that is possible. But I would be happy with identifying and
responding in real time.. Not thrilled to think the elections here
and elsewhere are swayed by automated misinformation..
Joe
On 11/20/16 12:49 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
"[..] with a bit of [artificial] intelligence and rudimentary
communication skills"
Right tool for that job.. But how do you build an army of bots that
can enlighten instead of just confuse?
Marcus
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*From:*Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Joe Spinden
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*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
*Subject:* [FRIAM] Automated Pro-Trump Bots Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton
Messages, Researchers Say
For discussion ??:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/technology/automated-pro-trump-bots-overwhelmed-pro-clinton-messages-researchers-say.html
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