I don't think this is productive. You can already adjust the style of LLMs and it's only going to get better over time. Any tool or strategy you come up with for detecting a bot can then be turned into an generative adversarial network to effectively create a system that breaks the tool.

The bots are going to win this war. I'm not sure of the implications of what this means though.

Well, the first implication is that online politics becomes even more of an astroturfed disaster area than it already is. Quite possibly democracy as a concept splits into two halves:

- "control plane", a media ecosystem where everything could be fake

- "ground plane", in-person gatherings and demonstrations, which are much harder to fake but have extremely limited access to information and are easily suppressed