I sometimes discuss TSLA in private forums and its staggering how clueless some 'investors' are. They still think competition is coming, think that Tesla have no tech advantage, think that the company mostly profits because of subsidies and credits... its kinda amusing to read.
Especially after my recent experience with OpenAI's Chatbot, and discovering how natural and convincing AI has become, even on nuanced subjects involving complex situations, I have a little different take:
How do you know the "investors" you're debating TSLA with are not AI bots?
Those who think this is funny or far-fetched need to tell me their reasoning. Because I actually find it more likely than not that more than half of the persistent but generally short debates/conversations taking place in comment sections/forums around the Internet about global warming, solar power, EV adoption and Tesla and related subjects are AI bots, not humans. My reasoning is a disconnect between the amount of time these debaters are willing to spend on what amounts to a debate that has played out the same way thousands of times before (not that humans wouldn't do this, but the frequency of it seems a little "off"). The other reason - I think I'm beginning to detect a certain style that distinguishes some of these debates from a human. It's quite subtle but they seem to be a little too matter of fact, in other words, better than most humans at avoiding personal emotion and this makes them sound more convincing.
Also, the incentive and motivation is there to fund such disinformation to make these false narratives sound reasonable to the masses. I will still spend my time to counter their false narratives, but only because I know that hundreds, sometimes thousands, of innocent humans read the comments. But I really think I'm most often debating a chat bot designed to twist reality.
I think the brave new world of AI is being widely deployed much faster than most are aware.
