The point I was trying to make was that there is no reason to worry about us setting fire to a fire. Of course you're correct, it'll get worse, but it's not like it wasn't terrible to begin with.

If anything the optimist in me is hoping that all this "AI" generated content is going to make the internet so useless that our society (well the part that doesn't believe the earth is flat and that Bill Gates has mini clones in the vaccines) finally get away from it. In my region of Denmark our local police posts their immediate updates on twitter, which was fine when everyone could see them, not so great now that you need an account. I very rarely care about what they post, but around new years a fireworks container blew up near here, and I had to register (and then later delete) a twitter account to figure out if I had to worry about it or not. It'd be nice if the impending doom of fake content is going to move our institutions and politicians away from big tech SoMe platforms and it just might if they become useless.

I think it's naive to attribute all of the world's problems to "misinformation". You can give everyone the same information; in fact, we all already have the same information. But perspectives will vary, and there will be conflict.

I don't attribute it all to misinformation. I attribute it all to greed but misinformation is a great tool for the ruling class to satisfy their greed.