I would love to see research that collects data on metrics like cost of censorship and effectiveness of propaganda, and plots them over time to see if there is any general trend and how much it has varied over the course of human history, and whether the latest AI techniques are changing these metrics significantly.
If you have not already seen it, this report from CSET discusses the extent to which something as capable as GPT-3 changes the cost and effectiveness of disinformation and propaganda.
If you have not already seen it, this report from CSET discusses the extent to which something as capable as GPT-3 changes the cost and effectiveness of disinformation and propaganda.
There was also a recorded discussion/seminar of the same topics with the authors of the report.
I don’t think it’s exactly what you’re looking for, but it seemed adjacent enough to be worth mentioning.