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Unpopular Opinion: We're not worried enough about where AI gets its knowledge from. These models are trained on public web data — and let’s be honest, a lot of that is sponsored, biased, or flat-out manipulative. The internet isn’t a pure source of truth anymore — it's a marketplace. Brands pay to push narratives, influencers fake credibility, and SEO farms churn out content for clicks, not accuracy. And this is what AI is learning from. If that’s not bad enough, imagine what happens when companies start directly sponsoring AI models. Quiet product pushes. Subtle narrative shifts. Opinions shaped without us even realizing it. By the time we notice, AI won’t be answering our questions — it’ll be marketing to us. Silently. Expertly. Invisibly.
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