I agree, but by now there’s probably no reason to make people write those kind of things. It’s likely that no human oversight is needed at all. Astroturfing can now be nearly completely automated.

Probably I'm just picking semantics, but that kinda is the good reason to make humans write those kinds of things. Astroturfing is bad, so needing to pay an entire human to be able to do it imposes a cost that limits its spread and application. I guess that's also what you're saying.

But that’s a very small gain considering the massive loss of trust in the web and making it a glitchy, spammy, scammy experience.

I've been passively wondering how long it will be until I have to start adding before:2023 to get remotely useful web search results on any topic. Don't know what to try yet if I need to look up something from after that.

On the contrary, I believe our inherent ability to trust each other is one of the main pillars of civilization, and undisclosed use of LLMs heavily undermines it.

Oh yeah, definitely. I just meant that as an ironic silver lining, the damage would probably be worse if there wasn't already some level of dishonesty and deception in society, because then we'd be too pure to have any defences against LLMs.