I'm not really sure that I'd judge Authentic Human Qanon Believer (2020) to be of greater value than GPT-5 Written News Summary (2026) though.
When it comes to people populating the internet with fake content to skew public perception and people replicating fake content because their perception has been skewed, I'm not sure how the bots are supposed to make the actual content worse. Granted, it might be more interesting to grapple with the psychology of why an account promotes puppies, cookies, Jesus and the belief that Donald Trump is going to rip off the Joe Biden mask and start the mass executions soon when you're pretty sure there's an actual human that likes puppies, cookies, Jesus and mass murder of political rivals and not just a machine-derived replication of popular sentiment, but it's not like human-generated social media is a paragon of quality content. Frankly, if trust in social media is about to die, long live our AI overlords.
When it comes to people populating the internet with fake content to skew public perception and people replicating fake content because their perception has been skewed, I'm not sure how the bots are supposed to make the actual content worse. Granted, it might be more interesting to grapple with the psychology of why an account promotes puppies, cookies, Jesus and the belief that Donald Trump is going to rip off the Joe Biden mask and start the mass executions soon when you're pretty sure there's an actual human that likes puppies, cookies, Jesus and mass murder of political rivals and not just a machine-derived replication of popular sentiment, but it's not like human-generated social media is a paragon of quality content. Frankly, if trust in social media is about to die, long live our AI overlords.