AI is a WMD

Cory Doctorow argues that AI is a weapon of mass destruction for the internet commons, because it lets spammers and bad actors flood the web at scale. He points to Advon, a company whose writers are replaced by chatbots, and reports that Maggie Harrison Dupré of Futurism found evidence Advon uses AI to produce content for clients including Yoga Journal and the LA Times. He also says Google's weak policing, along with Pixsy's automated legal threats against Creative Commons users, shows how commons get destroyed, and he contrasts this with Elinor Ostrom's research showing communities can manage commons.