> Social media websites could use AI to simply generate posts. I mean, why not? User engagement is all that counts, it doesn't matter by what means and at what

> Social media websites could use AI to simply generate posts. I mean, why not? User engagement is all that counts, it doesn't matter by what means and at what moral costs, right? It is already happening with engagement farming users, so a platform doing it to make itself look more active is not a stretch at all. Reddit did that sort of astroturfing the old fashioned way back when it was starting up, so there is at least one well documented precedent already.