There are numerous reasons trolling-as-politics is effective, but I think foremost is that trolling is just wildly efficient attention economics.

As with the would-be disinfo debunkers, the offered solution has been to demand the audience to spend *more* attention than they have/are willing to.

This will sound dismissive - and it is - but I think the "AI is only hype" crowd have over-corrected on their skepticism. Currently reads like telling on one's self

Its not going to replace workers at the promised scales (yet?), but its certainly eating the busy-work/intro-level work for many.

Its pretty fitting in that regard that experts should find themselves flailing helplessly for the last decade or more against these trends: their only reaction is ever to introduce more information.

But that wont help them anymore, will it?

I suppose I cant contest the theory we're in the Eye of Terror too much.