The coming automation of propaganda
Imagine you go to an online forum and that there is a 99.99% chance that a given message was written by a bot. Imagine further they are sufficiently well written you can&#x27;t tell from the post itself whether it was made by a bot or not How would people respond to that?<p>Well the obvious consequence is that you have to stop paying attention to random posts. You have to depend on something outside of the forum itself to find a list of people to pay attention to. That will be your friends and your family. And then it will be whatever media tells you to pay attention to.<p>Getting out of your filter bubble will be impossible because as soon as you step out you are faced by an onslaught of bots.<p>Maybe you could travel around IRL and acquire a diverse list of voices that way. But realistically only the elite could afford that.<p>Actually lets be even more cynical. Say you go traveling, meet someone. You add them on a social network. But it&#x27;s not them it&#x27;s a bot. And they get a few bucks for selling your eyeballs.<p>But then we can even further imagine that you follow them with a fake account too, and so the eyeballs were actually worthless.