Reality, Lies, and Automation: How AI-Powered text generation models could cause chaos?

In the past few years, the emergence of social media as a robust platform has ushered in a new era of social interaction, communication, community building, and sadly, fomenting conflicts through disinformation and propaganda. Social media has opened new, easily accessible avenues for disseminating falsehood, sowing division and promoting real-world (offline) damage through violence, harassment and exploitation. Using disinformation to win wars is not something new. Kautilya, in his magnum opus Arthasastra, said, ‘Silent war is a kind of warfare with another kingdom in which the king acts publicly as if at peace with the opposing kingdom, but all the while his secret agents and spies are creating divisions among key ministers and classes and spreading propaganda and disinformation in the other kingdom