(Online) manipulation: sometimes hidden, always careless

Ever-increasing numbers of human interactions with intelligent software agents, online and offline, their increasing ability to influence humans have prompted a surge in attention toward the concept (online) manipulation. Several scholars argued that manipulative is always hidden. But manipulation sometimes overt, when this acknowledged distinction between other forms social becomes problematic. Therefore, we need better conceptualisation allows it be overt yet clearly distinct from related concepts influence. I argue careless influence, show how account helps alleviate shortcomings hidden view manipulation, derive implications for digital ethics.