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      The way I see it it’s the scale and access. You can spin up an AI bot and make anything trending without a need to pay for a bot farm. And with how most media sucks at verifing sources it will be reported as truth.

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          Not yet. But it can already connect to the web, so adding ability to create random people looking accounts and mass posting something is not far off.

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            But we’ve already had bots that do that for years. That’s not what ChatGPT or any of these new fake AGI projects do.

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              They add human sounding language generation. You look at it as whole, I’m seeing it as a piece of the puzzle that combined will make the issue from an annoying inconvenience to a real problem.

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                I guess you’re right, every little helps to make things worse. But as I said the mainstream news sources aren’t trustworthy anyways. The media is already ruined behind repair as a source of truth or even valid information.