Dystopian media like Metal Gear taught us that bots like these would eventually grow to become powerful AI that would literally control the world from a shadowy deep state.

yes

In reality they’re just going to be used for shitty cheap viral marketing campaigns on social media.

the deep state is just the private sector. therefore shitty cheap viral marketing campaigns is just the shadowy deep state controlling the world (i.e. the market)

We can’t even have exciting things.

yes