The Trump administration recently published "America's AI Action Plan". One of the first policy actions from the document is to eliminate references to misinformation, diversity, equity, inclusion, and climate change from the NIST's AI Risk Framework.
Lacking any sense of irony, the very next point states LLM developers should ensure their systems are "objective and free from top-down ideological bias".
Par for the course for Trump and his cronies, but the world should know what kind of AI the US wants to build.
Oh we are ashamed.
But this is not ignorance or stupidity, but cult effervescence demonstrated as a phenomenon of social bias.
Think of it as an advertising technique or technology, one that not everyone is susceptible to by enough people are. My dad is (was) a literal rocket scientist for NASA and now a whole hearted MAGA disciple. You don't have to be unintelligent or ignorant, you just need to want reality to be different than it appears to be from observational data.
We are not special is a difficult truth for some to take, and immense propaganda machines capitalize on this desire.
We'll need to counter it or figure out the negative consequences of using it but until then — heck even MLMs are just business cults — they'll stay in use to subvert society until it collapses.
The US is one very large example, but these methods are used globally by people with influence who fear losing their power to movements of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
aka DEI
aka Wokeness
aka the fundamental principles of communism and anarchism. This is an old fight.