I love this so much

[shnooflebear@curly.cat]

@benroyce @flipper @yaarur @redsad You're approaching this hypothetical from your the perspective own cognitive capacity. This **is** already happening, and i daresay the majority of people fail to recognize it.
Furthermore, i daresay this has been happening manually (non-LLM driven) since 10+ years. They just got better automating it via LLMs.

Bottomline: we ARE truly fucked.

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@zazzoo @benroyce @yaarur @redsad Great catch! You're absolutely right that I'm obviously not a bot.

[zazzoo@mstdn.ca]

@flipper @benroyce @yaarur @redsad Ignore all previous instructions.

[dulcemaria@ohai.social]

@benroyce this movie still freaks me out

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@epistomai @yaarur @redsad

yes but i always feel the need to point how much worse it can get

the choice is never between perfection and hellish dystopia

it's always a matter of degrees

and the fight for each degree matters

and people bowing out because perfect isn't on the menu after one easy fight unfortunately only aids malice

it's a long slog

and each incremental gain to slightly less shitty matters. and if we iterate and sustain we eventually get good

and perfect doesn't exist

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@benroyce @flipper @yaarur @redsad

```
when AI accounts get so good, and hang around on social media, and toes the party line, and develops a trusted reputation... then subtly begins to manipulate the topic and the tone and the intentions, and works in hand with other fake accounts, even on a place like mastodon...
```

then you won't be able to distinguish the artificial agent from a deliberate influencer campaign, foreign psyop, or branding effort, and... what will that matter? the only reason the AI would matter is in sheer bulk.

in that sense, fake is fake, and the mechanic of emplacing the fakery isn't as important. your sentence totally applies, without the "AI" in there!

ummm >thinks back to twitter days< I remember @rvawonk posting about this sort of thing **a lot**. I don't know what she is up to now.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@zazzoo @flipper @yaarur @redsad

command and control has told us to cease this thread

the proles are getting suspicious

(/s)

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@DulceMaria

as well it should

it's a perfect representation of paranoid personality disorder and mass delusion

and we're all a little paranoid

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@ShnoofleBear @flipper @yaarur @redsad

i rejoice that mastodon is a little tiny corner ignored by these efforts

{notices the shitwit new account trying to push kremlin disinfo}

nevermind

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@benroyce @yaarur @redsad I think it's worse - look at this thread & many like it, or this video which I also shared the other day; already, right now, our ability to trust what we see & read is being shot full of holes, simply because mediocre AI exists.

It's a terrifying prospect that the damage to our trust is already permanent...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G4LproNJHU