This is just unimaginative and simple for all the sci-fi that's covered AI takeover in the past. Boring and preachy. Thumbs down.

Need a human's thumbs up before reading a wall of text from lesswrong, sorry.

Is this basically the real story about Facebook, but fitted into some AI context to make it more exciting?

That's at least how it begins.

I'll maybe read some more of it in the evening...

Getting tired of AI fanfic. No thanks.

TLDR: "Pluribus", except with AI, and sympathetic to the antagonist.