Relevant XKCD

All of the things in that image are tactics that have been being used for nearly a decade now. It’s not a thing unique to AI.

LLMs have only made it so that the bad operators who are pushing these kinds of operations now have a force multiplier.

We have already have a bot problem, but the capabilities were such that only a human would be able to draft arguments and posts while the vast majority of bots were simply there to manipulate the algorithm/votes so that their content is signal boosted.

Now a single person can control a large amount of accounts which can actively respond and argue like a real person in addition to the existing vote manipulation bot swarm.

Look at how many ‘people’ suddenly appeared out of the woodwork after the Minnesota shooting and started posting despite being inactive for months. Go look on any big instance at the number of communities which have moderators squatting on popular community names despite them having 0 subscribers, traffic or posts.

I don’t doubt that there are entire instances being run by these operations so that, much like the ever famous r/conservative, they can control the echo chamber.

LLMs are just the latest tool in their arsenal, but this tactic of manipulating social media is taking place right now.

Oh no. We must stop this threat to democracy that hasn’t already happened yet.

Thank God democracy hasn’t already been undermined for years.

Just more ram bro I promise bro we’ll save the world with more ram bro please bro more ram

We are so, so, so thoroughly cooked. I can’t even.

With some good leadership in opposition, leading people to a coherent strategy, these influence operations would fall flat. It’s only because our opposition parties, all mainstream parties, are captured by the rich, and or rich nazis.

We need organization, and leadership. Now it’s too late perhaps though, fixed elections and all, even if we had that leadership which we don’t. Worthless disliked aristocrats will be our fake champions, promising empty platitudes that they at most will make perfunctionary efforts to fulfill then give up.

No reform of not offered. 2008 was the last time we were offered that, and it failed by and large.

Just create a fact-checking / pro-democracy „AI swarm“. Tired of this fear mongering where apparently only the right wing knows how to write prompts, along with foreign troll farms.

Skynet plz.

Shutting down the Internet permanently is our only hope.

The old guard of human operated propaganda farms feel threatened by having their playing field leveled. They’re scared that non-capitalists may now have the means to have their voices heard over the cacophonous noise of the billionaire owned media and government sponsored troll farms.