Can you clarify which phenomenon you’re curious about? Blocking people who post anything that disrupts the desired messaging is as old as the ability to block people. AI-generated content is newer, but still not new. Optimizing for “engagement” rather than information or discussion is pre-internet (a LOT of publications, but not all).
Bot farms have been around for awhile. Use of AI for this purpose (along with all other, more useful purposes) has been massively increasing over the last few years, and a LOT in the last 6 months.
Personally, I’d rather have someone point out the errors or misleading statements in the post, rather than worrying about whether it’s AI or just a content farm of low-paid humans or someone with too much time and a bad agenda. But a lot of folks think “AI generated” is bad, and react as such (some by stopping following such accounts, some by blocking the complainers).
Can you clarify which phenomenon you’re curious about? Blocking people who post anything that disrupts the desired messaging is as old as the ability to block people. AI-generated content is newer, but still not new. Optimizing for “engagement” rather than information or discussion is pre-internet (a LOT of publications, but not all).
Large AI accounts and multiple people (or other AI accounts) being adversarial when I pointed out that it is AI is the phenomenon.
Bot farms have been around for awhile. Use of AI for this purpose (along with all other, more useful purposes) has been massively increasing over the last few years, and a LOT in the last 6 months.
Personally, I’d rather have someone point out the errors or misleading statements in the post, rather than worrying about whether it’s AI or just a content farm of low-paid humans or someone with too much time and a bad agenda. But a lot of folks think “AI generated” is bad, and react as such (some by stopping following such accounts, some by blocking the complainers).