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Does Trump's 'Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine' Hold Water?
Forbes ^ | March 5, 2017 | Jason Bloomberg

Posted on 03/05/2017 4:10:30 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The secret to Donald Trump’s win: a masterful combination of big data-based manipulation of hapless Facebook users, combined with ‘weaponized’ artificial intelligence (AI) which the Trump campaign used to mount a relentless misinformation machine.

Or depending on your perspective, Trump’s people simply leveraged the latest generation of software tools better than the Clinton campaign was able to manage, a carefully crafted turnabout after Obama’s two campaigns successfully gained advantage on the McCain and Romney campaigns respectively by using the latest software of the day.

Regardless of how you look at the situation, influencing public opinion is what political campaigns are all about, and successful ones leverage all the tools at their disposal. Increasingly, such tools are software-based – and where political campaigns forge the way, enterprises are sure to follow.

While the inside story of the Trump campaign’s use of cutting edge technology may have nefarious overtones for some, the reality is that it set the bar for both progressives as well as conservatives in the future – as well as anyone else seeking to gain a competitive advantage using AI and big data.

Psychometrics, not Demographics

Our story begins earlier this year, with a German-language article in Das Magazin by Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus. A version of the article soon appeared in English on Motherboard, a service of Vice.com. That article, The Data That Turned the World Upside Down, explores how the Trump administration used a big data technique called psychometrics to win the election.

At the center of the Motherboard story: psychometrics software vendor Cambridge Analytica. “Cambridge Analytica buys personal data from a range of different sources, like land registries, automotive data, shopping data, bonus cards, club memberships, what magazines you read, what churches you attend,” the article explains....

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: demographics; hillary; psychometrics; trump

1 posted on 03/05/2017 4:10:30 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More Bull Dung, trying to take the light off of obama, clinton and other high mucky muck pedophiles.

The use of protests, violence, and repeated intimidation goes far beyond political disagreement.

When coordinated by a former president and his close associates, it is sedition – political provocation of the most dangerous kind. Barack Obama’s true importance was not as the first black President of the United States. What truly makes him a historic figure was that he was the first openly hostile to America President of the United States. He was the product of decades of anti-Americanism come to power, and it is now clear that power has no intention of going gently into that good night. Night is to become nightmare.
Some in the media are working diligently to get this information to the public. It is yet another uphill battle as the Establishment Media and various political cohorts ignore and distract. Don’t let them get away with it. Help to educate others to the this dangerous truth.
We are in the midst of an attempted coup to overthrow the current government.

In the Civil war of 1860 to 1865 it was the South fighting the North, this time it will be Trump Patriots fighting the obamites, the clintonites, the Republic haters.

So three percenters, patriots, of the North and the South, it is time to bury the hatchet and rescue the Republic.

Read more at http://dcwhispers.com/american-coup-no-former-president-has-actively-plotted-the-overthrow-of-his-successor-until-now/#IGgkcrs1wZUS0jRA.99


2 posted on 03/05/2017 4:15:19 AM PST by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And ‘Forbes’ joins the ranks of useless democrat shills...


3 posted on 03/05/2017 4:15:41 AM PST by Mr. K
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They are saying that Trump, the Russians or someone manipulated us because we’re too stupid to use technology for our own benefit.


4 posted on 03/05/2017 4:28:55 AM PST by Frapster
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To: All

Posts BUMP!


5 posted on 03/05/2017 4:35:54 AM PST by PGalt (HOORAY President Donald J. Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary sucked as a candidate.

Took me five words to get to the truth.


6 posted on 03/05/2017 5:19:40 AM PST by dforest
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Weaponized, AI, Propaganda?! What a string of horse manure. Children learn to overstate positions with power words in grade school to make lies seem more exciting. In High school you learn to put strength in your ideas not words. It seems that with the present crop of reporters we are fast on our way to kindergarten writers.

Did they give their twitter account a gun?

Did someone in the Trump group finally actually create and Artificial Intelligence? Because there has never been one created to date.

The largest Propaganda machine known to man is the fricking TV, and the MSM are its driving force.

Give me a break from all this school yard reporting please...

Trump is actually working for a living, Bammy would have taken a vacation or three by now and thrown a handful of drunken parties.

Hard work, that is a feared weapon in the feed troughs of Washington elites.


7 posted on 03/05/2017 6:05:11 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow, Forbes has really dropped into the bowl and pulled the handle on itself.


8 posted on 03/05/2017 6:11:18 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The secret to Donald Trump’s win: a masterful combination of big data-based manipulation of hapless Facebook users, combined with ‘weaponized’ artificial intelligence (AI) which the Trump campaign used to mount a relentless misinformation machine.”

So Forbes is going in for blatant propaganda now too? At least they make no attempt to hide it nowadays.


9 posted on 03/05/2017 6:12:42 AM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch did not need software to defeat McRepulsive and RINOmney.

Their own stupidity and complete inability to lead and inspire did that quite well.


10 posted on 03/05/2017 6:30:01 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Sirius Lee

Foolish writer from the big tent.

Forbes joins the Control-LEFT media gaggle.


11 posted on 03/05/2017 6:32:55 AM PST by ptsal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Boo Hoo is strong in this one


12 posted on 03/05/2017 6:34:11 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Sirius Lee

And the plumbing has backed spewing sewage all over the place and causing all kinds of pollution.


13 posted on 03/05/2017 6:35:57 AM PST by tiki
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As opposed to . . .

Weaponized IRS

Weaponized DOJ

Weaponized CIA

Weaponized NSA

Weaponized bureaucracy

Weaponized Press


14 posted on 03/05/2017 6:39:54 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

I already told everyone how Trump won.

It’s in my book with Joel Pollak, “How Trump Won”.


15 posted on 03/05/2017 6:40:05 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: ptsal
From the FORBES article - OCEAN

The ‘Big Five’ personality profile, according to Cambridge Analytica’s web site, includes Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism – or OCEAN. Analyzing these five characteristics gives Cambridge Analytica’s customers the ability to perform ‘behavioral microtargeting’ – the holy grail of personalized marketing, going well beyond the clumsy demographics approach familiar to all marketers.

16 posted on 03/05/2017 6:44:47 AM PST by ptsal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump won because Trump was the better candidate.


17 posted on 03/05/2017 6:45:23 AM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Forbes and Bloomberg. Now there’s a couple of names with zero credibility.


18 posted on 03/05/2017 6:52:26 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Forbes is still trying to deal with Clintoonie’s ass kickin’. They might want to join the snowflakes and see a shrink. If they don’t, they’ll probably end up being what the Marxist college professors are calling a “suicide cluster”.


19 posted on 03/05/2017 6:55:11 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: American in Israel

“...Weaponized, AI, Propaganda?! What a string of horse manure. Children learn to overstate positions with power words in grade school to make lies seem more exciting. In High school you learn to put strength in your ideas not words. It seems that with the present crop of reporters we are fast on our way to kindergarten writers...”

Well said! “The present crop of reporters ... are fast on our way to kindergarten”!


20 posted on 03/05/2017 10:19:30 AM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: Replace all textbooks K-12!)
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