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The obsession about shills directly stems from the Red Scare which remains part of the core programming of Americans ever since. The CCP employes lots of commentators on domestic social media to enforce government narrative, but there is no evidence they are doing the same on English-speaking forums posing as grass root users. Native-level English skills are rare to come across in China, and anyone with that level of knowledge can easily find better paying jobs than this. LLMs may change that some day, but they won't be the only one deploying LLMs to attempt to influence online opinion.