

On the technical side they could abuse API calls although that wouldn’r be necessary because using the current API setup but flooding it with massive amounts of data would be a burden on locally hosted instances. The main reason I am opposed to Threads and other social media federating with their massive amounts of mediocre to crap data would be overwhelming for both instances and users. Yeah, there are blocks and all that but if the server is dying from being overwhelmed with traffic it doesn’t matter.
The big players can damage the fediverse simply by being allowed to federate.
AI returns incorrect results.
In this case semantics matter because using terms like halluilcinations, lies, honesty, and all the other anthromorphic bullshit is designed to make people think neural networks are far more advanced than they actually are.