I believe in this trend. The amount of people that can use powerful tools without any knowledge is increasing. Some might just GPT their way into creating more darkness. Greed is a nefarious beast. Always has been.
Two, large predators rarely go quietly in the night from starvation. They typically expand their hunting grounds and try new types of prey.
Seriously though, a real life robot is more expensive to make and run than an online one. Plus, there's nowhere for them to put "permanent" content, they'd have to talk to us one by one, or start graffitotagging ads everywhere. Any robots they did make would be obviously robots, and we can avoid them. It doesn't scale the same way.