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Study: AI autocomplete suggestions can nudge people's opinions - and they don't notice
(www.scientificamerican.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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I don't know if being blasé about an AI influencing everybody else's opinion (including, for example, their politics) is just shortsighted, or downright stupid.
i can do exactly zilch with other peoples use of ai. I give my opinions on its usefullness or not. Its not going away. Its basically the next level of abastraction of search.
There's more you can do than that! It's not as if we live in some sort of laissez-faire hellhole where corporations can do whatever they want; we could lobby the government to regulate it.
I would need to see proposals on regulations. I can't see banning it making documents for people or do the autocomplete.