Chatbots are more addictive than so called social media, with few exceptions like TikTok.

They also solve the problem of publicity. When someone goes insane on Facebook it's rather visible, unlike when someone goes insane with a chatbot. Unless they publicise their descent, like Geoff Lewis seems to do.

Which means it'll be harder to detect when people are being deliberately manipulated, like it was pretty obvious which role Facebook played in e.g. Myanmar and Ethiopia.

How would you act if you wanted to make sure that the people that can perform the technical proliferation won't revolt against it?