In this talk (software as creative partner, European Lisp Symposium 2014), rpg mentions the DoD&#x27;s interest. I enjoyed the talk:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;medias.ircam.fr&#x2F;x03b42f" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;medias.ircam.fr&#x2F;x03b42f</a><p>I&#x27;ll spoil it: the DoD wants natural language generation that would influence people on social media, like Twitter.<p>Say the DoD doesn&#x27;t want resistance fighters (like you) to meet somewhere. They&#x27;ll generate a barrage of tweets about how that&#x27;s a bad idea. Those tweets don&#x27;t influence you directly, but they influence people you follow on twitter, who do influence you (because by nature of twitter you follow those who influence you). You don&#x27;t meet, because your friends--who have your best interests at heart (because their your friends)--told you not to.<p>When this works as intended, the DoD is able to influence people without being easily traced.<p>It&#x27;s a little horrifying, which makes it <i>fascinating</i>.<p>One more comment about the talk: rpg shows his humor, strong opinions, and software wisdom in this talk. Again, I recommend it.