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"1) AI flooding social media with slop, and 2) foreign governments flooding English-language social media with disinformation. Well, if you take a look at the screenshot at the top of this post, you’ll see the intersection of the two!"
I see a person called A. Mason writing on Twitter and ironically subverting the assumption that she is a bot, by answering with the requested poem but letting it end with a sentence about Biden that confirms her original statement and doesn't rhyme.
Of course, this could also be an AI being so smart that it can create exactly that impression. This would be the start of the disintegration of social reality.
That sure is often the case, but not always, and therefore it may count as a bit of evidence but not extremely much. Otherwise it would be very easy to automatically delete bots on Twitter and similar platforms.
I think it's very likely we'll see more situations like this (and more ambiguous situations than this). I recall a story of an early turing test experiment using hand-coded scripts some time in the 2000's, where one of the most convincing chatbot contestants was one which said something like:
"Does not compute, Beep boop! :)"
pretending to be a human pretending to be a robot for a joke.