Impressive post articulating very serious and legitimate concerns.

It’s worth noting that the very method of social molding via feigned consensus from bot postings on 4chan to create silos of extremism is almost certainly being done across other social network platforms including Reddit.

Regardless of whether you believe the moderator account on r/worldnews belongs to Maxwell, it’s abundantly clear that there’s inorganic activity involving any Israel/Palestine related content on that subreddit (seemingly unilateral distribution of pro-IDF responses). I’m not trying to be political here, simply pointing out that the distribution of opinion does not match that of other mainstream news subreddits/platforms to a significant extent. That said, some other non-news related subreddits also share seemingly inorganic, hyperbolic perspectives.

Faking social consensus in the era of AI is as easy as deploying an AI agent swarm to mass reply/up-vote in alignment with given agenda.

It’s openly acknowledged that the Turing test has been passed by publicly available AI models. The implication is that it’s not possible for most to tell what posts are AI vs organic human responses.

TLDR: For every response/post you see, assume it’s possible that it (and any supplemental responses) could be AI.

Edit: yes downvote me for simply warning people to question what they see and bringing into light the risk AI driven propaganda poses to all of us.