The internet has turned into a machine for influencing people already through adverts. Businesses know it works. IMO this is the primary money making mode of the internet and everything else rests on it.

A political or social objective is just another advertising campaign.

Why invest billions in AI if it doesn't assist in the primary moneymaking mode of the internet? i.e. influencing people.

Tiktok - banned because people really believe that influence works.