Comment by ben_w

I think the only difference is one of scale and cost.

AI is automation, and the existence of fully automated propaganda doesn't deny the existence of manual propaganda before it.

> This is extremely dangerous to our democracy

Indeed, the existing manual kind of propaganda is already dangerous. Always was.

Even so, manual propaganda can at least be fought by grass-roots movements, by humans being human. This is why freedom of speech is valuable.

Hard for real humans to counter an AI that can be even moderately conversational at a cost of just USD 0.99/day to fully saturate someone's experience of the world.