This is what the radical far right wing of the US establishment is thinking about Canada. This has echoes of Project 2025 "when they tell you who they are, believe them".

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I honestly don't think it's AI slop. It doesn't have many of the usual markers.

And I may have been wrong about it being of the far right wing of the establishment, but I think this kind of shit is entirely coherent with the thinking of the "dark web" and "Dark Enlightenment", Curtis Yarvin types that do have the ear of very influential tech billionaires. The name ("DARC") and troll-y style, as well as the self important way of being confidently wrong about the details, of this "alt think tank" is very consistent with that part of the cesspool of the US right.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow. Although I do still think it is written with some LLM assistance, and I don't think the authors sincerely believe the absurd alt-history they're espousing in this article, I am sad to say I think your assessment here is actually spot-on.

I got a slop vibe after reading just a little of it, and then clicked away and skimmed their other article titles ("Based International Law", "The GIGACHAD Approach", "Shitposting as a National Asset", etc). then clicked to the homepage and saw their "Generated Affairs" (thisforeignaffairsarticledoesnotexist.com) LLM thing under Special Projects, and I naively concluded that the whole thing was merely an edgelord trolling project.

Looking at it a little closer now (and seeing that their other link under Special Projects https://rickovercorpus.org/ is actually a serious thing which links back and thanks them for funding) I am also horrified.

I still think it is an edgelord trolling project, but it is one with a likelihood to be seriously influencing actually-powerful people 😱

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

That's what makes me so uncomfortable. This is the spec of shit around which a whole "project 2025" type project can be spun around, the kind of thing that nobody takes seriously because it's just out there ...until all the people who authored and funded it start appearing in positions of power.