“Shoot for the moon, and if you miss you’ll end up drifting aimlessly until you die” doesn’t sound as good, but probably works just as well as an analogy

One development we may see imminently is the infiltration of any areas of the internet not currently dominated by AI slop. When AI systems are generally able to successfully mimic real users, the next step would be to flood anything like Lemmy with fake users, whose purpose is mainly to overwhelm the system while avoiding detection. At the same time they could deploy more obvious AI bots. Any crowdsourced attempt at identifying AI may find many of its contributors are infiltration bots who gain trust by identifying and removing the obvious bots. In this way any attempt at creating a space not dominated by AI and controlled disinformation can be undermined