[version_five]

You could also just use a text editor to write a fake news story, or pay $5 to a freelancer to write it if you're busy. I don't understand why people belive llms fundamentally change anything. Worst case scenario they make you slightly more efficient at your malfeasance, just like they do with legit tasks.

[spookthesunset]

Not just slightly more but likely much more. You can automate the hell out of an automated propaganda bot in a way you could never do with a smoke filled room of $5/day workers.

[quickthrower2]

The cost of a million FUD spreading comments online for an election campaign just went down from $5m to maybe $100 of compute time.