{"id":231,"date":"2026-09-04T10:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:17:54","slug":"senior-ai-lesson-26-ai-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Senior AI Lesson 26: AI Manipulation \u2014 When AI Tries to Influence What You Think, Buy, and Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WackyCoder Senior AI Lesson 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This lesson examines how recommendation systems, targeted content, persuasive design, and AI-assisted scams can influence attention and decisions.<\/p>\n<h2>Class activity<\/h2>\n<p>Compare examples of recommendations, advertisements, and suspicious messages. Identify what is trying to influence you and what information may have been used to target you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaway:<\/strong> Stay aware, slow down, verify important claims, and keep important decisions human.<\/p>\n<p><em>Recovered from the original WackyCoder Senior AI Lesson 26 archive.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognize how algorithms, personalization, persuasion, and scams can influence decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-for-seniors","category-senior-ai-lessons","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}