1, I don’t really believe lemmy is as inconsiderable as people like to think, but whatever.
2, the money put into AI manifests in a ton of different ways. You’ve got people who like it because they want their stocks to go up, people who like it because their office pampers them for being a good sport about using it, people who like it because of the cultural osmosis of seeing it at the super bowl, as an ad between every 3rd and 4th reddit post, probably on the sidebar or whatever on polymarket, and you have people who like the fetishistic technofuturism of it all, a public image which is another product of ad agencies more or less.
So, even if no one is astro turfing lemmy in specific, our culture is still being astroturfed out the ass.
Is the implication here that the AI industry are astroturfing Lemmy/Piefed?
1, I don’t really believe lemmy is as inconsiderable as people like to think, but whatever.
2, the money put into AI manifests in a ton of different ways. You’ve got people who like it because they want their stocks to go up, people who like it because their office pampers them for being a good sport about using it, people who like it because of the cultural osmosis of seeing it at the super bowl, as an ad between every 3rd and 4th reddit post, probably on the sidebar or whatever on polymarket, and you have people who like the fetishistic technofuturism of it all, a public image which is another product of ad agencies more or less.
So, even if no one is astro turfing lemmy in specific, our culture is still being astroturfed out the ass.