It was always a good idea to ignore the cesspool that is Twitter. No matter whether we are talking about bots or lynch mobs.
Btw, I think you mean Berenstain Bears.
Currently we tend to understand bad information on the stream as a function where quality is linear and quantity is exponential, and individuals or human filters can still identify reject the lower 99% as spam. Every point closer on the graph the quality comes to resemble human-made content represents an exponential degree of further confusion as to base facts. This isn't even considering whether AI develops its own will to conduct confusion ops; as a tool for bad actors it's already there, but that says nothing of the scale it could operate at eventually.
The sophistication of the misinformation is exactly the point: That's the mass multiplier, not the volume.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenstain_Bears#Name_confusio...
For example, my phone would automatically sign this post with my signature. If I programmed a bot, I could sign as myself or as a bot, but not as another registered human. So you'd know the post came from me or a bot I've authorized. Theft or fraud with digital signatures would be criminalized, it isn't already.
Your comment is wild, by the way. You think people should be allowed to run a bot farm, as long as they can digitally sign for it... but people who don't pay for a signature should be arrested?
I'm pretty sure it's already illegal to steal someone else's signature in some jurisdictions.
There would be no legal requirement to use a signature. No change there. Just as you cam send postal mail today with a return address and no name, and you can buy items with paper cash, and so forth. The government would give out verified signature, or the phone providers, and it'd be free. I don't really have the answers.
An example I use for people is the Bernstein Bears effect. Imagine you wake up tomorrow and all your digital devices have no reference to 9/11. You ask Bing and Google and they insist you must be wrong, nothing like that ever happened. You talk to other people who remember it clearly but it seems you've lost control of reality; now imagine that type of gaslighting about "nothing happening" while the lights go out all over the world and you have some sense of what scale the larger of these systems are operating at.