> But none of this requires GPT. Much simpler bots often do the trick, and when slightly more finesse is required a whole army of human "bots" stand ready on th

> But none of this requires GPT. Much simpler bots often do the trick, and when slightly more finesse is required a whole army of human "bots" stand ready on the grey market to take your crypto and post carefully crafted bullshit wherever you like. GPT MAY end up automating out this human element a bit, but it's hardly a harbinger of doom. The 'doom' part is simply that automation, rather than enabling new classes of attack, is going to make a wide variety of nastiness much cheaper and easier to scale, and so viable for a broader array of targets and purposes, and accessible to more actors. Conversely, you can expect that the cheap forms of sockpuppetry and spam (eg. X RTs for $Y) will get more effective at their existing price points. Which also broadens their appeal. Here's a thought experiment: What happens when the kind of targeted influence and misinformation campaign deployed in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections is just as feasible for most of the down ballot as well?