[NortySpock]

These ChatGPT tools allow anyone to write short marketing and propaganda prompts. They can then take the resulting paragraphs of puffery and post them using bots or sock puppets to whatever target community to create the illusion of action, consensus, conflict, discussion or dissention.

It used to be this took a few people to come up with writing actual responses to forum posts all day, or marketing operations plans, or pro- or anti-thing propaganda plans.

But now, you could astroturf a movement with a GPU, a ChatGPT clone, some bots and vpns hosted from a single computer, a cron job, and one human running it.

If you thought disinformation was bad 2 years ago, get ready for fully automated disinformation that can be targeted down to an online community or specific user in an online community...

[kaba0]

I believe a new wave of authentication might come out of this, where it is tied to citizenship for example (or something related to physical reality). Otherwise we will find ourselves in a truly chaotic situation.