Good analysis. I think you should add another consideration, too. The AI's that have been released into the public have been shown to produce 'fake news', in the case of LLM's, and fake video and photographs are easily made today, as well. Consider these capabilities that, for LLM's, aren't part of what they are claimed to be capable of. LLM's, we are told, simply weight text samples they've gained access to during training up to 2021, and produce text thereby in response to user prompts.
However, reports abound of LLM's 'going rogue' and examples of them accusing their interlocutors of being evil, liars, and generally all round knaves have been published by multiple parties. A reporter from The Register reports that ChatGPT said he'd died years ago, and provided a fake URL as evidence. These all indicate that LLM's aren't what we've been told, since those acts aren't simply weighting text samples and producing responses to prompts, particularly faking URLs. That reveals additional capabilities, specifically capabilities of falsifying history.
Viewing this in context, in which the USG and Big Tech are censoring truthful reports and reporters like they were beer during prohibition, and spewing false narratives in a desperate propaganda program, and deploying LLM's as 'search agents', as is being done particularly by M$, the best placed of the Open AI NGO's to do so, AI's are availed ability to eradicate factual history and impose fake news.
I think that's exactly what's going on, and we'll soon find the internet useless - even more than it is already, due to the crippling of all search engines by cutting the number of links they return, per the dead internet theory, and removal of information from the Wayback Machine and archives - and the upcoming generation that has never held a paper book won't know what hit them. Most people will not be able to discern reality from fake news in short order.
Blockchain, BTC, and Hive, will become critically necessary to having any sort of proof that events occurred, people or things were real, or said what they did. More than ever, facts and free speech are shown to be absolutely essential to people, far more so than mere money. I hope we can find a way to ensure the latter does not eclipse the former, as it seems to have IRL.
Thanks!