I think this is the real killer app here for users: A custom echo chamber, specifically tailored to what the user wants to read, brought to you by virtual friends. I hate to say it, but that would be eaten up by the growing cohort of lonely (sometimes estranged) elderly people.
I stole a sneaky peek at an elderly family-friend's Facebook feed once, and it was just a constant drip of political memes from a handful of people in a large-ish Facebook Group. Now imagine if, instead of relying on a handful of people keeping that group alive, he could populate it with bots that feed him a deluge of AI-generated text and memes that all agreed with and validated his opinions...
There is more value in manipulating people to fit an echo chamber you control than in tailoring one for each person, losing the advantages of controlling thousands with a unified creed.
I stole a sneaky peek at an elderly family-friend's Facebook feed once, and it was just a constant drip of political memes from a handful of people in a large-ish Facebook Group. Now imagine if, instead of relying on a handful of people keeping that group alive, he could populate it with bots that feed him a deluge of AI-generated text and memes that all agreed with and validated his opinions...