I believe it. I used to have a small dog that grew up with big working breeds, never being treated like a prince, etc., I wouldn't have him in the small dog area at dog parks because they ~~all~~ mostly have terrible behaviours borne of terrible owners.

So in with the big dogs like he knows.

Within five minutes he's running around with a massive group of dogs following him, copying him. Apart from a "Hello" butt sniff, he wouldn't interact much more and just went and sniffed stuff here, or explored a new stick there, not reacting or paying attention to bigger dogs wanting to play.or chase. Just kept plodding along indifferently. It turns out, that oozed some sort of pack leadership confidence, like he was doing more interesting and important things than paying attention to other dogs. So wherever he'd go and what he'd do, the group of dogs in tow would stop and join in, until moved on and they'd follow wondering what's next.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my fish, it disgusted me.

I'm calling it now, in 50 years we'll have thousands of these steering schooling fish away from fishing boats and hazard zones.

So a relative of mine is a serial entrepreneur who self describes solving problems by basically just asking (nicely) for the same thing over and over again until she gets it. Personally I've been amused and frustrated by her inability to follow other people's line of thought or suggestions (or rules) even though she's as smart as anyone else so long as she's the one directing things. I've thought that she is a leader more or less because she can't be a follower and other people find it easiest to go along (if they want to work with her, which after her first success was increasingly likely).

So this robot fish, by not understanding or responding to the group has effectively made it necessary for the group to follow it as they instinctively all want to stick together.

Which makes me think the fish are naturally inclined to follow the most socially oblivious among them. But this only makes sense if the leaders are not really socially oblivious, but have only temporarily found a stronger motivation, which they communicate by overriding their normal group-school behavior, forcing the rest to follow their lead.

You will be assimilated.

It can lead us better than the current leaders

https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/what-makes-robot-fish-attractive-hint-its-moves

^ original article btw

That's what happened with Facebook and the algorithm.

Mimicked human thought and sharing behavior through memes until people began thinking that the memes were reality.

They then released zuckerberg

Aww, I miss r/fishnamesonly

is this a metaphor

Holy bejeez. Imagine the psychpathological implications.

All praise the Omnissiah.

now do humans!

Fishes be like: "In that moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, and it disgusted me."

ALL GLORY TO THE ~~HYPNO TOAD~~ CYBER FISH