I tried to read the article and what I got out of it was that the author believes that the deal that keeps the internet safe is that we just don't try to break it hard enough. Ignoring all the state actors who do that all the time.

Seems something of a unusual take on the state of the world

This is how a lot of the world works. Certain things aren't done very much because it takes a lot of human effort to do those things and that creates a status-quo.

For example a lot more people would sue eachother for petty things if it suddenly became very easy and cost efficiant. Its not, so they dont.

Another example of AI doing this exact type of thing in another realm: In the past convincing someone you were somebody they should give money to for a scam was very possible to do, but also difficult and not very cost efficiant. You could try to impersonate someone's daughter or a police officer, but it took a lot of effort to get it right.

Now, with voice mimicking ai, deepfakes, social media to mine for personal info, etc its not as difficult and so, very likely, its becoming a bigger problem than it was.

Really? I think that's pretty much accurate. If you've ever visited a website whose authors you don't know and trust, you've exposed yourself to potential attacks and trusted in sandboxing to keep your computer safe.