General Discussion

You don't. Indeed, right now as we speak on social media organizations are using bots and people are essentially arguing with no one and in doing so boosting engagement. It's really not about accepting the future. It is going to happen. Sci-fi writers have been writing about this for a long while now.

Is it a nightmare . . .

Well, for mass produced crap it will be absolutely a god-send. However, just as some people still buy vinyl records (sales have actually gone up), there may very well be a resurgent in in person theatre or "real" actors movies. Usually to these social trends there is a certain backlash.

To me the nightmare is the Deepfakes. It's going to be very hard to know if what you're seeing is real or made to fool you, discredit someone etc . . . imagine computer generated child pornography. Totally created by a computer. No child is harmed. All of it is essentially fake. Is that illegal (its certainly immoral), but is that illegal. What age is a computer generated character in a computer generated work of art. These are the questions the future is going to have to answer. What will be the penalty for Deepfakes to the media that spread them? Etc . . . there are real issues and if you think "The internet is not a truck but a series of tubes" people in congress are up to working on solutions, I have my doubts.