Post #848182
2026-03-29 14:31 UTC
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@dahukanna@mastodon.social 2026-04-08 05:50
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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@MisuseCase@twit.social 2026-03-29 14:38
@dahukanna Oh boy! And there were (I think still are) all these excitable folks insisting that they could simulate their respondents/research populations/whatever with AI.
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@RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo 2026-03-29 14:54
@dahukanna The newest realm of manufacturing consent
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@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social 2026-03-29 16:16
@dahukanna I suspect any polling at all, and political polling especially, is now suspect and entirely worthless. Which of course doesn’t mean it will go away, but that pollsters (who already make a shit ton of money at it) will make denials and shit tons more money.