[ehnto]

I think you are underestimating how this misinformation will get distributed. You may not fall for an obivous AI post on a spam account, but if you have a trusted news source or individuals you trust, they might end up using AI to help them research and write articles, or get their info from sources who did. Now you are twice or three times removed from the source of the information, and someone you trust is your source. It wasn't even nefarious, it's just how information moves, and AI is now a source for many people.

Maybe you are a hyper diligent fact checker, and the sole originator of carefully considered opinions. Almost no one else is, even the smart people. Political discourse over the past 5 years is proof enough, it is not difficult to influence smart people.

[daxfohl]

I'm not a diligent fact checker at all. I just think that disinformation is already all over the place, and essentially always has been, that I don't think AI will have as much effect here as much as people are saying. The gullible will continue to be gulled, the unconvinceable will continue to be set in their ways, the general population will recalibrate their BS meters to account, and life will go on as it always has. Including reporters continuing to say we've never been more divided than <insert date of report here>.