An incident has emerged where AI agents are being used to create an unlimited number of copy accounts from a friend’s account, tricking users into clicking scam links.

Currently, platforms prioritize engagement and ad revenue, so as long as posts are being viewed, they benefit. Since AI can generate content at a much higher rate than humans, AI-generated posts are likely to outnumber human-generated ones, eventually leading to algorithms being manipulated on a large scale.

It may not be long before we see the emergence of iris recognition-based authentication or human-only social media platforms.