This isn't that different from what we have now as people have abandoned corporate messaging for communities and podcasts/youtube/etc to try to find authentic human voices. The difference will be how much harder it will become to catch the bots.
The last time I felt this kind of disappointment was when those Bluetooth Low Energy beacons ("iBeacon") became a hot topic - a lot of startups popped up, and quite quickly, they've mostly settled on the same primary use case: retail. That is, tracking and spamming unsuspecting users as they move about shopping malls.
It's already starting, humorously at least for now.
> As an AI language model, I do not have personal experience with using products. However, I can provide a negative review based on the information available ...
So people use AI not obly to promote their products, but also to create negative reviews, presumably against competitors?! That's fu**d up.
Related: Reverse Turing Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Turing_test
The key feature of witch hunts as a concept is the non-existence of witches. If you have a hunt for something that certainly exists (Soviet spies infiltrating US institutions come to mind) it definitively isn't a witch-hunt.
For my part, I'm going to keep downvoting comments that say nothing in the most bland way imaginable, and flagging anyone who posts "I put your question into ChatGPT; here's what it says" (in contexts other than discussions of chat bots).
New users can't participate unless they go out of their way to find something they might not be interested in and comment until they have enough points to participate elsewhere.