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Recommends iamben · 2020-01 · on “New Cambridge Analytica Leaks”

But at that point couldn't you just upload an email list and target by that? I could be miles off the mark, but I assumed a lot of this came from getting people to take a "personality test" and then bucketing that person for particular ads. Admittedly I based a bunch of this on Alexander Nix's utterly fascinating OMR presentation ( [this video] ). As per the parent, it always amazes me at how easy it is to influence someone if you know the right levers to pull.

Cites alexdong · 2018-03 · on “Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook”

The video above was 7-week before the Trump campaign and this one is after the result and a sort of review of the "success": [this video]

Critical fny · 2018-03 · on “The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works”

This is completely different. Cambridge Analytica deliberately lied and deceived users about the intention of the application they created to harvest information about users: > Like all app developers, Kogan requested and gained access to information from people after they chose to download his app. His app, “thisisyourdigitallife,” offered a personality prediction, and billed itself on Facebook as “a research app used by psychologists.” [0] Cambridge Analytica is also in the business of using manipulation and psychological techniques to convince users of an outcome. And this isn't something I'm making up, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica peddles this as the potential of his platform: [LINK] T

Critical fny · 2018-03 · on “The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works”

This is a scandal, and we should not blur lines here. Facebook engages in surveillance capitalism. Cambridge Analytica engages in Orwellian practices of deliberate and targeted mass manipulation, actively deceiving users from the outset about it's intentions, and using lies as a means to an end. From the Facebook report on the reason CA was suspended: > Like all app developers, Kogan requested and gained access to information from people after they chose to download his app. His app, “thisisyourdigitallife,” offered a personality prediction, and billed itself on Facebook as “a research app used by psychologists.” [0] Cambridge Analytica's CEO also espouses complete deceit as a strategy core

Critical rramadass · 2026-02 · on “Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An open-source deep dive”

Palantir is just "Cambridge Analytica" redux but with more money/connections/data/breadth/depth/etc. Their ethical/moral stance i will leave it to you to infer. Watch these old presentations by CA's then ceo Alexander Nix and extrapolate to today's AI world - [LINK] and [this video] (note the Q/A at the end here) Also watch this interview with Christopher Wylie the CA whistleblower and again extrapolate to today's AI world - [LINK] Be afraid, Be very afraid.