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Latent Persuasion

cumulative opinion-shaping by an opinionated language model, building across turns and invisible to any single-output audit (Jakesch et al., CHI 2023). No one suggestion is propaganda; the shaping lives in the aggregate — in the residual you can't see at the level of one prompt.

— defined in 162th Edition, May 24, 2026
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Appears across 2 pieces (1 defined it · 1 discussed it in essays): when this term was part of the conversation. First surfaces May 2026.

Across the corpus (2 — 1 defined · 1 discussed)

Defined 162th EditionW22 · May 24, 2026
Discussed Data Is Not the New OilW22 · May 28, 2026