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Perhaps it will destroy anonymity. Because the only way to be sure a human wrote something is if you somehow know who the comment came from.

We might end up with reputation based conversations.

Of course, the human can simply lend their name to the robot. And as previously discussed, ending anonymity entrenches the existing power structure.

> Of course, the human can simply lend their name to the robot.

That could have consequences for their reputation, though.

Are you suggesting that people found to have misled the public should be .. cancelled?

(Reputation is a lot more controversial and complicated than it sounds)

You can still be anonymous with this. You just need to be pseudonymous.

Robots can also have a pseudonym.

Go to URL and tell me what is written there.