Back when things were sane and normal before this AI stuff, people used to complain about these things called bots and bot farms that they said were "interfering" with elections, or even "spreading misinformation" on the internet. It always puzzled me. You see, I am an intellectual, a really rational SWE and free thinker, so I would insist we correct the vocabulary: "No bot can interfere with anything," I would insist, "These are just programs written to engage and just follow template-based text posting". People and even seemingly smart policy makers kept insisting it's dangerous and could even poison discourse. But not me, for I was a rational intellectual who really knew these were nothing more than if-else and for-loops, not something that could bring down democracy or interfere with normal human discourse. They have no intent! They can't be acting or doing things on their own, they had to be directed by humans! But people never got me.

I am working on a new book along that line of reasoning now, this time focusing on why stochastic parrots can not, under any circumstance, do anything "on their own".