What happens if this need isn’t filled? Well, the focus of this article for one, more and more astroturfing and fraud. How about riling up another country’s voting public with lies? Various forms of harassment and bullying? And do you think AIs are going to make this better or worse? Should we ignore all of this because we’re worried about the outcome matching the plot of a Gibson or Stephenson story?

I can’t come up with a better argument than I’ve made in these two articles:

https://www.williamcotton.com/articles/the-tyranny-of-the-an...

https://www.williamcotton.com/articles/authentically-human-i...

They are both short reads.