People as a collective are incredibly stupid. And because of this they’re incredibly easy to manipulate. It has always been this way- it’s just that now, the powers-that-be have figured out exactly how to use them to a perfect advantage.
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Counterpoint: we're still talking about ChatGPT and that, I hope, is not as smart as some aliens capable of intergalactic communication between intelligent species.
If tomorrow they announced that it had been happening for a while? Perhaps we'd move on.
If tomorrow were First Contact? Everything would change.
I just strongly doubt that. Firstly, heaps of people would be dressing as aliens for Halloween and thus talking about it.
Secondly, there's just way too many follow up questions, about them, their culture, their home, their tech, their goals, their language, their biology, the impact they've already had in our history, who knew and who didn't, etc.
So many fields would begin looking into it and throwing up new angles and facts for people to chew over.
Just think of how much time christians would devote to converting aliens to jeebus.