I think that on top of the deleterious effect of bot voting, bot-posting is a similar threat from the bottom up towards the ecosystem. I will just leave it at a simple remark, how on earth can a human-created content creator possibly outdo any human, when all the knowledge the bot might use is going to be taken from humans anyway. If people wanted to read AI commentary they would go and find it, if someone ever comes to thinking that it will do anyone any good. I don't see how it possibly can.
The whole AI=god/satan thing is such nonsense. Anyone who has read Accelerando would understand that humans will augment with them, and therefore, how could any pure AI system possibly exceed this capacity of the combination, and I haven't even addressed wetware augmentations that increase organic intelligence? AI's capacity to sacrifice also is non existent. Yes, you could code an AI to have some concept of risk, and moderating it in some way, but in the end, can you separate the human hand from the tools it creates? I don't think so. In the end the decision will be made clear in a court when a run-away AI murders its human servant-master, and the maker of the AI will be liable for murder.
yes, your words resonate, makes perfect sense to me