AI has the potential to be the most powerful propaganda machine the world has ever known. The ability to seamlessly jump into conversations and actively steer them towards the owner's target position en masse is terrifying. Add to that the ability for the AI to swarm dissenters with dozens or even hundreds of sock puppet accounts, creating manufactured consensus is undoubtedly already being done by people on a smaller scale, and definitely being tested by state and corporate actors to use for a variety of targets and subjects.

It's unclear to me how that is different from today where people already pay for content posting by humans. I suppose it might make anonymous user reviews or use testimonials worth even less than they are today, but presumably for shooting the shit it matters not whether you're doing it with a person or AI.

I wonder if we're going to want some sort of ID tied to an account so we can at least talk to communities. And if we'll split more back into smaller communities where we kind of get to know the people or AIs in them vs Twitter etc.