Post #1707896
2026-04-08 05:50 UTC
Related-https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116365084180918433
“A recent Axios story on maternal health policy referred to “findings” that majority of people trusted their doctors & nurses. On the surface, there’s nothing unusual about that. What wasn’t originally mentioned, was these findings were made up by silicon sampling
Clicking through the links revealed that “public opinion poll” was a computer simulation run by AI start-up Aaru. No people were involved in creation of these opinions & it’s suddenly everywhere.”
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@dahukanna@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 19:37
Related - https://flipboard.com/@futurism/futurism-1lupih3cz/-/a-hWRkyR9zQFuooBpWKGziAw%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0 “Foolish Pollsters Are Now Just Asking AI What Voters Would Say in Response to Questions and Publishing It at Face Value https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-polls-silicon-sampling?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub”
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@wronglang@bayes.club 2026-04-08 09:52
@dahukanna this is the definition of smelling your own farts