With some of these technologies, it reminds me of times I go “I can’t possibly do X unless I have Y”, where Y is some fancy new tool. But then I find a video of some old dude doing the exact same thing with a couple rocks and a stick he found in the woods.

You can do lots of propaganda using AI, but you can also use lots of propaganda using a room full of Africans making a few pennies per hour. We know that nation-states have spent massive amounts of resources on propaganda, including directly influencing the Internet. That sort of resource utilization is just as mind blowing as AI, you could be surrounded by people who agree with you and be the only real person in the crowd, and that should be terrifying.