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AI bots dominated UK vape-ban consultation, drowning humans
Oct 27, 2026SOURCE: theguardian.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, this signals governance is becoming a battlefield of machine-written inputs, not persuasion, compressing time for legitimate choice.
A study found roughly three-quarters of responses were machine-generated. The attempt didn’t stop the policy shift; the old system absorbed a synthetic flood.
Research corroborated machine-generated response proportions.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.