Forget about primitive bots that used broken Polish to persuade you to make a “sure profit” in the comments under Elon Musk’s posts. We are already past this stage. Science magazine has just sounded the alarm bell because autonomous AI swarms are coming. And believe me, this is not just another technological curiosity, but a real threat to our money and what we consider truth on the Internet.
The end of the era of clunky bots
Do you remember those times when recognizing a bot was very easy? A lot of identical entries at the same time – a classic of the genre. Unfortunately, this era is now becoming a thing of the past. Researchers from Oxford and Berkeley make it clear – now the market and the media will be controlled by “AI swarms”.
What are these beasts? Imagine a group of intelligent programs working together with almost no human supervision. They are not stiff. They can discuss, react to your arguments in real time and – worst of all – create the perfect illusion that a given project is supported by thousands of real people. In the crypto world, where sentiment can send a stock skyrocketing or send it crashing into oblivion, such an “orchestra” of manipulators is a powerful weapon.
Astroturfing, or how you fall for the “crowd”
What scares me the most is how patient these systems can be. This is no longer a quick money grab. AI swarms can spend weeks or even months building the credibility of their fake profiles. They post photos, post memes, and gather followers. All this just to throw out the slogan at the right moment: “This will be the new ATH!”
We’re talking about professional here astroturfing. It’s a piece of digital bullshit designed to make you believe that there’s an army of enthusiasts behind a project, when in fact it’s just one server in a dark room. Consequences?
- The prices of small tokens are jumping like crazy without any foundations.
- You invest in “revolutionary” projects that are just shells.
- Critical voices are immediately silenced by a massive attack of artificial accounts.
Is verification the only shield?
Sean Ren from Sahara AI doesn’t beat around the bush: simple moderation today is fighting at windmills. If we want to stop being pawns in this game, we must focus on drastically stricter identity verification.
This sounds like a headache for fans of anonymity, but the logic is simple – if creating an account is difficult and expensive, an army of bots will no longer be profitable for manipulators.
The only question is whether we are ready to give up the remnants of privacy for the price of security on the market? Because for now, manipulators have better cards in their hands, and our wallets are in the first line of fire.
