Oh heck yes. One India focused study that I saw, introduced me to the term Cheap Fakes. Another report studied how genAI made phishing pipelines more efficient, allowing profitable targeting of groups who hitherto were too poor to be targetted.

So on one end you have large scale pollution of the information commons, and on the other end we are now creating predator pipelines to generate content with all the efficiency of our vaunted AI productivity. Its creating a dark forest for normal people to navigate, driving more government efforts to bring control. This in turn puts this in conflict with freedom of speech and expression while dovetailing nicely with authoritarian tendencies.

Yes, Its heartening to hear all the people who find productivity gains from AI, but in totality it feels like we got our wishes granted by the Evil Genie.

> One India focused study that I saw, introduced me to the term Cheap Fakes

Wasn't that term entirely invented by the Democratic party to dismiss videos of Biden's "senior moments"?

I'm curious if the term predates that or maybe you're not in the US?