Opus 2025-150: Gather Bots

I forced myself to watch the speech that President Trump gave to Congress recently.  I forced myself to watch his inauguration speech . I am a Trump supporter.  I believe he is the man of the hour.  I believe God has sent him and preserved him.  At the same time I find his speaking style rather painful.  So why did I listen to the speeches?  Because I wanted to hear what he had to say.  I wanted the unprocessed food, so to speak, not the version with all the additives and artificial ingredients that we get from the Talking Heads.

Talking Heads, come in two flavors generally.  Both flavors tend to be artificial.  It is getting harder to know what is going on just by reading memes, click bait or posts.  I feel like I can get the general idea but I’m beginning to wonder.  My concern centers on two popular terms, AI and psyops.

Psyops is relatively easy to define.  It’s simply a form of advanced, sophisticated propaganda.  It’s a form of brainwashing that is all around us, but is now so well done that we often mistake it for real news or real opinion.  We are having our opinions molded by people that we don’t even know about.  That’s why it’s very hard to read things on the Internet and get to the truth.  Everybody seems to have an angle.

AI itself is not something I worry about.  It’s just faster and more sophisticated computers.  Computers can only do what they are programed to do.  So the real problem with the AI is the programming and the programmers.  How does this work in the news?  I’m beginning to think that popular amalgamators who bring together news sources and ideas are being manipulated by an algorithm involved in modern computer technology.  Some people call it AI.  I find it less threatening to talk about the algorithm.

For instance, I read criticism of the new attorney general, Pam Bondi.  I find myself wondering is this criticism accurate or is it subtly twisted in order to give me a bad impression of her and thus turn me against Donald Trump.  How could this work when you find it on a site that is supposedly supportive of Donald Trump?  I think it has to do with what we used to call bots.  These are programs that look for keywords and then put together the memes or pictures or articles presented by those keywords.  Thus you might have a search engine looking for articles on Pam Bondi.  Then you would take those and automatically put them into your list of memes and sources without actually reading them yourselves.  All of the work is done by the computer.  This is probably the only way these large number of links could be assembled without a crippling payroll. What channeled my thinking on this was a meme with the idea that Bondi was saying that the Epstein list would have to be redacted to remove things having to do with national security.  Did she really say that?  Is it an incomplete statement leaving out key issues that she addressed which would be reasonable?  Is it just a psyop to drag down the administration?  What seems strange is I can’t think of anything having to do with a list of child abusers that would affect national security.

Artificial psyops is a real possibility.  It’s possible that these sites are not even paying attention to what they’re saying.  Of course it’s also possible that what they are saying is accurate, and we are being slowly sold down the river.

Does this mean that I am certainly going to have to start actually watching all of these long and boring interviews?  Is that the only way I can find out the truth?  That will be a hard decision.  It might mean fewer naps.

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