Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to resonate with municipal officials’ duty to represent local interests. The chatbot drops the cost of misinformation to "close to zero."
    • perestroika@slrpnk.net
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      19 days ago

      Some former “let me be free, I wanna get and spread COVID” person, apparently. They seem to be pretty transparent about their computerized astroturfing. What worries me somewhat more is that a proper influence agency would not be transparent at all.

      KICLEI (‘Kicking International Council out of Local Environmental Initiatives’) was founded in 2023 by Freedom Convoy activist Maggie Hope Braun with a singular aim: to convince towns and cities to quit the voluntary net-zero program Partners for Climate Protection, due to its ties to the UN through its co-organizer, ICLEI Canada.