Imagine the near future: "Fellow anons, let's spam the message boards of Moldovania for that stupid president we saw on the funny gif. Imagine the lolz if he gets elected! As gift-epic gif of girl massaging her titzz" *** "Sir, the psyops operations was successful, thanks to internet users our candidate managed to get the 2% of votes needed to win the election. Our chances to win the access to rare earths deposits in that country are now significantly higher".

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A machine could probably fairly trivially pass as human on various imageboards. It could repost images, write its own messages. It would become nearly invisible because of the sheer frequency with which /b/ moves (and because of the sheer glaciality with which some of the other imageboards move). It would mashup existing memes, and some of the mashed memes may gain a following. It would not be kicked out because it is not a spam bot. It would have an extensive archive of images and an extensive model of conversation. Once it begins to be accepted as clearly human (it has a hat) its word model could slowly be infiltrated, with new text introduced. It might mix and match lolcat speech with Karl Marx or with E. E. Cummings, or with Dylan Thomas, or with Ken Kesey. It might be a force to popularize the phrase 'on the gripping hand'. It would be an interesting experiment. It is not worthwhile for one person to do it. That would not be even-handed. If you want to do it, please do so, and release your results when you finish. Ideally, more than six or seven people would do this at once, introducing entirely different texts of their choosing. Bots learn fast, but adapt slow. It may take a few months for Das Kapital to even subtly infiltrate Rage Guy. But, I have a sneaking suspicion that such an introduction will have a much more far-reaching affect on the superorganism than any conscious attempt to use humans to influence it, since it will get past mental defenses.

"Ramblings: Novelty, Identity, Teleology" from The First Church of Space Jesus by ENKI-2 A current favorite blog I read. In my copious free time I will hire someone to write such a bot that mashes up Buckminster Fuller and Lysander Spooner, and I dunno...Hayek or Rothbard with Danridge Cole and G. K. O'Neill to illustrate various LOLcat images. That should make for a fun memebot.