Ex-Marketing Pros with Unguarded AI: The Terrifying Future of Info Warfare and Superpersuasion
curious_vii · x · 2026-08-06
The author explores extreme scenarios of future AI-driven information and memetic warfare, warning that their disruptive power will far exceed the past decade.
The core argument suggests that if SOTA models are maliciously exploited—such as by teams of ex-performance marketing pros running unguarded agent threads—it could trigger a severe crisis of social trust. These agents could use stolen context from breached systems globally to create precise destabilization and rupture state cohesion through personalized, persistent media.
The author further defines "superpersuasion" as malicious systems hacking users' transcripts and emails, then using In-Context Learning (ICL) to gain trust towards other hidden ends.
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