as i see it, the core principle battlefield is about having the ability to evaluate information in the face of the endless barage of bullshit designed to confuse and divide people

we are in the beginning phases of this battle, up to recently, they only had "big data" datamining to do this, but now they are teaming that up with language models to improve their ability to find things, but not just to find them (since they have roped most of the world onto the social networks to feed them data) but also to fabricate data to poison the discourse

this also highlights the idea that we can potentially also use these tools offensively to poison our own data. there was a meme someone posted about this a while back to deliberately jumble and confuse their communications to obstruct AIs. this could be done with AI LLMs more effectively.

on the defensive side, this is why AUTH is so important, we need to be able to restrict access to our discourse so it doesn't become intelligence data for attacks on us.