I think this will rapidly go from conspiracy theory to it's known that someone is doing it to everyone is doing it so much it's impossible to meet real people online. And then the real people give up on it exacerbating the problem. Market for lemons.
>conspiracy theory
>it's known that someone is doing it to
>everyone is doing it <- YOU ARE HERE
>so much it's impossible to meet real people online.
Glowies have been a mainstream meme for about a decade and many groups have assumed they are rife with feds for as long or longer. The conspiracy theory goes a decade farther back than that.
Well the AI part is a signifant evolution.
"quantity has a quality all its own"