Imagine in a few years being able to say to chatgpt8:
Please promote my product on the fediverse by registering 100,000 accounts over the course of 12 weeks on at least 500 different instances, weighted by instance size. These accounts should be conversational and engaging with other members and should not be detectable as bots. 10% of of these bots should express skepticism in my product, and the remaining bots should engage them in a public discourse to correct their misunderstanding. Monitor the sentiment of people discussing my product and develop an optimal strategy to maximize that sentiment. “
@jerry Already happening, according to my sources. Who're reasonably knowledgeable, considering they run a few million bots on Twitter.

@OutOnTheMoors @jerry

> they run few million bots on Twitter

Oh! Thank GOD!! I thought our entire nation had become dumber than a toilet brush, but maybe the posts I was seeing were just dumb bots!!

I still don't understand how they are out there voting and attending political rallies, though.

@TwentyYearTexan @jerry The bots are commercial, not political. They're like trucking companies, taking a load of beer one way, taking a load of canned goods back. They're an effective distribution method - nothing more.