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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Evan Saltis, post: 24382013, member: 103066&quot;]Robert Epstein, a psychologist I really have enjoyed reading the works of, called the way search engines manipulate the mind &#039;Search Engine Manipulation Effect&#039; - he believed it could have had serious implications in politics and education when the study was first conducted in 2015.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just at the end of 2022, he published another FANTASTIC work about the &quot;Answer Bot Effect&quot; (ABE)</p><p><br /></p><p>Once I read the study - it became apparent it is much more dangerous and capable of perpetuating false information than ANYTHING the world has ever seen before. People have unfettered faith in algorithms, it&#039;s a part of the psychology Epstein is looking to investigate. &quot;Answer bots&quot; like ChatGPT, and to a lesser extent, Alexa, Siri, and Cortana, do the thinking FOR you... At least with biased search engines (which operate for financial gain through ad placements) you can skip the garbage by going past the first page or two...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is scary now... It just hasn&#039;t fully impacted your generation the way it has mine <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Brains will only continue to rot away <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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