> The so-called Russian Firehose of Propaganda model, described in a 2016 Rand report, is about creating a fog of misinformation; it focuses on volume, and on creating uncertainty. It doesn't matter if the "large language models" are inconsistent, if they can greatly escalate volume. And it's clear that that is exactly what large language models make possible. They are aiming to create a world in which we are unable to know what we can trust; with these new tools, they might succeed.

I would encourage anyone who wants to look into this more to see the part of the 2016 documentary/film project "Hypernormalisation" about Vladislav Surkov:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=hypernorm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI27qk1irg0