I think the key here is going to be coming up with robust protocols for user verification; you can't run an army of spambots if you can't create thousands of accounts.

Doing this well will probably be beyond the capacity of most instance maintainers, so you'd likely end up with a small number of companies that most instances agreed to accept verifications from. The fact that it would be a competitive market - and that a company that failed to do this well would be liable to have its verifications no longer accepted - would simultaneously incentivize them to both a) do a good job and b) offer a variety of verification methods, so that if, say, you wanted to remain anonymous even to them, one company might allow you to verify a new account off of a combination of other long-lived social media accounts rather than by asking for a driver's license or whatever.

And of course there's no reason you couldn't also have 2 or 3 different verifications on your account if you needed that many to have your posts accepted on most instances; yes, it's a little messy, but messy also means resilient.

I promise as an AI experimenter and bot coder to keep them out of general population of people don’t want them there.

Honestly we need to work on getting the community to manage bots.

Unpopular opinion, but karma helped control that kind of stuff, karma minimums and such.

Yeah I got all the same concerns, I would trust fediverse more to try and fix this and Reddit zero, quite the opposite, I think Reddit might even take advantage of AI bots themselves to keep their dying platform alive and attack competitors like us.

How to fix I honestly do not know, there has to be some way to verify humans better than captcha which hopefully once it becomes relevant can be implemented. If not, we can probably forget about the internet entirely and return to monke.

In the past month, I suddenly was inundated by bots following my Reddit account every time I posted. I’m enjoying a reprieve - I hope AI develops to detect the AI and kill the AI

I'm seeing some communities with the same name they had at reddit being created without any content.

I don't know if there's an intent to block names of if some people just want assure a chair as mod of such community. But it's something we need to keep an eye on.

Do you think clickbait posts will start popping up in pursuit of ad revenue?

Now that you mention it... yes.