trolling will soon be automated, and in the case of gamergate may have already happened: Welcome to 2018 or so. Half your social media friends are probably robots – and they’re probably the half that you like the most. Every so often one of the remaining humans gets driven off the Internet thanks to a furious 24/7 Twitter assault that might be a zeitgeist moment, or might just be a bot assault. And you can’t even tell if what you think is the zeitgeist is entirely manufactured by one guy with an overheating graphics card and a Mission.

2023-02-03: Scott Alexander considers these rampant fears and concludes that they won’t be a big deal

Overall I think it will happen to a very limited degree or not at all:

1. There Are Already Plenty Of Social Anti-Bot Filters
2. …And Technological Anti-Bot Filters
3. Fear Of Backlash Will Limit Adoption
4. Propagandabots Spreading Disinformation Is Probably The Opposite Of What You Should Worry About
5. Realistically This Will All Be Crypto Scams
6. I Do Think This Might Decrease Serendipitous Friendship, Though
7. You Can Solve For The Equilibrium

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