Right now we can call out people who have the “everyone who disagrees with me is a bot” mentality, but that’s going to get harder if we actually start using bots.
Although the idea of having the bots automatically respond may not be the best solution for every case, having a more centralized knowledge database with up-to date responses against everything could be useful to the people commenting online and being able to give a very large amount of sources to anything not ground in reality.
Chatbots are also terrible at accurately sourcing their claims
There are ways to ground such knowledge in reality though, like having intermediary AIs/LLMs that can point to human checked sources and then having the computer copy the passages straight from there to the actual AIs that are going to make a response and to the checking AI or even humans who would help make sure the project is going well and improving on the shortcomings.
A chatbot that needlessly invents capitalist atrocities or falsely describes the real history of socialism undercuts all that.
A possible middle ground solution would be to use the AIs to point to online comments/texts/scientific papers/books/ that properly debunk/explain things so that, at least people who aren’t blindly believing everything, can check against and see another, actually different, point of view of matters.
Didn’t even know that there was anything other than local…