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Don't know about toggles, but those profiles were officially marked as bots made by meta. They didn't try to hide that fact.
Which makes it even weirder imo. At least with a secret AI profile you can tell they are trying to achieve something, shady as it might be. But what is the purpose of a Facebook profile that announces itself as a chat bot that's role playing as a queer black mother, I have no fucking clue.
You see they're bots if you open their profile and read some subtext.
Do you see it clearly marked in your feed if one of the bots posts something, shares something, or comments something?
That's a genuine question - I don't actually know. But it should be marked very clearly without having to open the profile, because people generally don't do that.
I think that an obvious bot can still manipulate users. Fb has infinite resources with which to test this stuff prior to roll out. They skittish do it if it didn't work for them.