Manufactured Majority

How AI May Be Quietly Rewriting Public Opinion

Public opinion used to be something societies discovered. Polls measured it. Elections revealed it. Media reflected it.

That assumption is breaking.

Artificial intelligence is not just measuring what people think anymore. It is beginning to shape what appears to be normal, popular, and acceptable. Not through persuasion in the old sense, but through scale, repetition, and placement.

Most people still believe public opinion emerges from millions of independent minds. That belief is becoming outdated.

When AI systems decide which views are amplified, which are buried, and which feel common, opinion stops being discovered. It starts being manufactured.

And once that happens, disagreement does not disappear. It just becomes invisible.