So, rather than thinking of AI spammers as *creating* the ideological and aesthetic trends that drive millions of confused Facebook users into condemning, praising, and arguing about surreal botshit, it's more true to say that spammers are *discovering* these trends within their subjects' collective yearnings and terrors, and then *refining* them by exploring endlessly ramified variations in search of unsuspected niches.
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