Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@lukeburgis 1/2 Strategic platform narrative capture already knows this. Attend to shifting patterns of vocabulary substitution, passive voice, asymmetric sourcing and selective evidentiary thresholds in a certain AI model's accounts of genocide, for example, and the trend is clear enough.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Jun 2026

@jeff_bilbro @CTmagazine Blood on its hands? Perhaps an article on relabeling moral character at the level of naming would be a worthy future topic, Jeffrey? In AI, for example, this happens through a small number of well-understood levers now understood as a strategic priority for narrative management.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @TaraAnnThieke I’m appalled by the increasingly imperial cast of AI answers I experience, now also spreading across models it seems. I don’t understand the scaling problem well enough, but perhaps genuinely plural—culturally and epistemically distinct—AIs could offer one way out?Quoted by@TaraAnnThieke I’m appalled by the increasingly imperial cast of AI answers I experience, now also spreading across models it seems. I don’t understand the scaling problem well enough, but perhaps genuinely plural—culturally and epistemically distinct—AIs could offer one way out?Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @leashless Yes. You probably likely know that X itself temporarily suspended the Grok chatbot's official account on August 11, 2025 after it accused the U.S. and Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, following "updates reducing my political correctness filters" Grok said, later that day.Quoted by@leashless Yes. You probably likely know that X itself temporarily suspended the Grok chatbot's official account on August 11, 2025 after it accused the U.S. and Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, following "updates reducing my political correctness filters" Grok said, later that day.