It all seems harmless until you sit down and map out how nefarious characters would utilize the capability.  In the old version of the game there were “bots” and “fake accounts,” which most people are familiar with.  However, in the modern iteration of the ruse Artificial Intelligence comes into play and the AI term “agents” create a new dynamic.

An AI Agent is a created persona utilizing the massive data capabilities of AI to review and create a personality.

The task set looks something like this:

Create an AI agent and give it a name, say Frank.  You tell Frank to review all of Nick Fuente’s social media posts, videos, presentations and online manifests.  Then you instruct Frank to create a psychological profile of what Fuentes believes, how he expresses himself, how he interprets information and the specific vocal and inflection pattern used to share information.

Once Frank has that profile established, then you instruct Frank to build out a community of like-minded sub-agents, who hold the same worldview -each with individual characteristics and nuance- that articulate issues and points of interest in support of Fuentes.  Frank [parent agent] creates a community of 50 [children sub-agents] who can push the Fuentes ideology independently, each re-referencing the originating parent’s continued update, patterns and ideological expressions.

Now you have Frank leading a group of 50 online personas (1 agent and 50 sub-agents) to create the community and boost the messaging of Fuentes based on current issues and events.  Each agent and sub agent creates an account on the favored (targeted) online platform. The instructions tell them the general direction of where they are to go, but in the largest measure the sub-agents can be unleashed to run autonomously, 24/7 with no need for rest, checking back with Frank occasionally who is giving constant feedback based on your instructions.

Suddenly, the opinions of Nick Fuentes seem to be popular, and the Fuentes perspective is boosted within various platforms.  All of the children hitting the social media pages to share and support the Fuentes message.  They like his content, resend his messages and even engage with responses if needed, while they articulate debate based on the education from their parent, Frank – the lead AI agent.

One human creates one AI Agent and in turn that creates 50 AI sub-agents.  That’s just one arbitrary example.

What is the reality online amid this self-promoting group of AI agents?  It’s not the ‘real world’ it’s all online, within a universe entirely created and manufactured. However, it can give the illusion of widely held opinion online.

Make this process exponential by asking real people to sign up and register their support.

“The American Accountability Network is a powerful consortium of advocates, content creators, organizers, and influencers who together have formed an ecosystem that has the ability to shape political narratives, reach the public at scale, and mobilize people to take action.

Our core network online consists of thousands of advocates, including many who have hundreds of thousands and millions of followers.  Across all the major platforms our network reaches an average of 200+ million people each week.” {SOURCE}

Now, those who run this network don’t need to tell each participating “real person” the specifics of how their content will be boosted within the ecosystem to shape the political narrative at scale.  They only need the originating identity, so that an AI Agent like Frank can be assigned to it.

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This collective amplification then shapes the opinion and narrative perspective online.  Some of it from real people, actual content creators, but most of the opinion from the concentric circles of AI Agents operating independently to boost parent messaging.

The era of AI creates this opportunity to manipulate public perception at a level unheard of before.

Replace the Nick Fuentes instructions with another personality profile created in the abstract with the goal to drumbeat “affordability,” “gas prices,” or “tariffs” and the cost of the Iran war.

1,000 parent AI agents now assemble their 50,000 sub-agent children with the training and tasks accordingly.  Now, you have a never sleeping online narrative distribution network operating in real time across all social media platforms.  All of it fabricating a reality online that does not exist in real life.

Cue, Van Jones to talk about it; or, more accurately, to talk about part of it without mentioning the AI Agents of course. (prompted)

JONES: Listen, we’ve got a bunch of Democrats that I think ran for the right reasons. Also, it’s not just about the people who are elected to office. Now it can be told.

Now it can be told. How did we win the narrative on affordability? Was it just these nice little Democrats out there running for office and going to… No. The Republicans never figured out what we were doing. There’s something called the American Accountability Network, tens of thousands of online humans, not bots, coordinated to make the affordability message a winning message online. 32.5 million people hit on Instagram every day. 88.8 million hit on Twitter, X, every single day. And 185 million Facebook hits every single day. And they never figured it out. The Republicans could not understand it wasn’t bots. It was actual human beings.

The most effective online organizing campaign called the American Accountability Network flew under the radar screen, never been told before.

COLLINS: And they were talking about the issue or they were saying you need to elect Democrats to deal with this?

JONES: Driving the kitchen table affordability message and tying that to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative, the Republicans never figured out what we were doing. And what that meant was everywhere you go, people were talking about affordability and they were talking about kitchen table issues. They couldn’t get any traction on these cultural war issues anymore because we figured out how to get around all that.

So it’s not just all the door knocking that was done, which is amazing. It’s not just our amazing candidate quality. We had something called the American Accountability Network.

Don’t get mad at me. I was given permission to reveal this. They never figured it out. And that network is going to continue to push for kitchen table issues and hold our Democratic lawmakers accountable.

There’s much more to this.  I will be sharing and highlighting more information about specific areas where this is showing up at a later date.  For now, it’s worth thinking about the ramifications to this type of political information shaping operation.”

In the originating example, Frank’s AI messaging taskset can be designed and tailored for Michigan or Texas.  The children can be tasked to a very specific level of audience, all the way down to fellowship level (ex. collegiate alumni).  All of the data to accomplish these tasks was collected, downloaded and used in the training of the AI frontier models.

They have it all.  Now, people are exploiting it.

AI Agents can also register to vote and request absentee ballots.  The system has no effective physical check on the return to ensure that a real-life person filled out the ballot.

This creates a never-ending expanded number of American voters.