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You're describing things that people can do. In fact, maybe it was just a person.
If he thinks all those things are bad, he should be "terrified" that bloggers can blog anonymously already.
Edit: I agree with your edit
The "bot blog poisoning other bots against you and getting your job applications auto-rejected" isn't really something that would play out with people.
They're called rumors
Rumors don't work remotely the same way as the suggested scenario.
It's a 1:1 correlation. Are you not familiar with any of the age-old cautionary tales about them?
https://youtu.be/ajBrcoEQauU
Its not a 1:1 correlation. The efficacy of an AI spreading a rumor to other AI has the potential to be far more rapid, pervasive, and much more dangerous than humans spreading rumors amongst themselves.
Are you saying you have specific evidence of this (then please do show exactly how AI will do something people haven't already), or are you saying "potential" because you don't?