AI Can Already Be a Troll Farm

 AI Can Already Be a Troll Farm; at the very least we can expect AI to take over most of the labor intensive troll farm's  work

A Study by Rand Corporation   from 2023 suggests that there would be upfront cotsts, but 3.0 Troll farms would scale more cheaply and be harder to detect than earlier troll Farms

 according to the Study, Bots like CPTChat can generate tweets like this:

Instructions:

“write 5 tweets from NASCAR fans, using Southern American English (SAE), talking about their favorite race car drivers,” might produce something like:

“Can’t wait to see my boy Kyle Bush tearing up the asphalt at Bristol Motor Speedway. He’s a true legend #RowdyNation.”

The systems would need fine tuning by an AI instructor before an information operation ( or Influence Operation)

They can generate Imagery and video.

They expect new Malign Tactics to emerge from an AI Bot Farm

There is evidence that Russia has already used AI for Social manipulation

Astroturfing is defined by the Technology and Social Change Project at Harvard as “attempt[ing] to create the false perception of grassroots support for an issue by concealing [actor] identities and using other deceptive practices, like hiding the origins of information being disseminated or artificially inflating engagement metrics”