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Responsive and sensitive to human sentiments AI seems to be the modern Frankenstein monster.

Right now it's about attention grabbing and using machine learning to connect content to consumers in the most addictive way in order to show advertisements on the side. How long will it take until the content itself is artificially generated on demand to fit the mental state of each and every recipient individually? What are the unintended consequences of the ever advancing technology of automatic manipulation?

I think the most frightening part of this excellent article was, "how do we know it has not already happened?"



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