The usual goal of professional propaganda - of disinformation - is to paralyze, to prevent constructive communication, discourse, progress.
Was it a joke?
Am I to mourn the loss of what I personally consider one of the worst manipulative toxins to ever exist?
Thanks AI.
It was never a joke because bots are older than AI
as a black box, a 4k context LLM AI (text in, text out) is no different than a highly effective search engine indexing all possible 4k bodies of text (also - text in, text out)