[jjoonathan]

The first LLMs were trained for helpfulness and it shows. However my suspicion is that if they can be trained for helpfulness they can also be trained for rhetorical efficacy and I don't think that will improve the information ecosystem.

Then again, politics is already mired in slimy rhetoric so this probably won't be a cataclysmic change. We already have a few tools to deal with it. AI Debates could be cool. Are cool -- the evidence that convinced me LLMs were special was going on character.ai and pitting a Marx and Hayek character against each other. That was a fun debate with helpful AIs but it would still be a fun debate with rhetorical AIs.