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Pretty much any comment that runs contrary to the current hype narrative gets downvoted: 10 years ago, if you pointed out that cryptocurrency is a scam, you get downvoted. Today, if you point out that AI isn't going to live up to the hype, you get downvoted.

That being said, I think you need to have concrete examples of opinion shaping for this thread to get any constructive discussion.

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Thank you, and I agree. I did not want to cite examples, thinking they would overwhelm the thread with the specific problem in question.

I don’t mean groupthink or the opposing groupthink that comes in response, though. I believe I can tell the difference, and I believe this is new and systemic.

If you don’t perceive the same thing, I may simply be wrong or projecting. It’s why I asked.

If it's going on, it's probably not in the threads that I read.

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I see sock puppets everywhere. Some obviously state actors. This is how soft power is exercised in the 21st century to shape narrative. Your tax dollars being spent (assuming you live in a country that practices propaganda against it's own citizens like the USA. see Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012/2013)

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