I don't understand the idea that malicious disinformation campaigns are a "sci-fi" threat. I learned yesterday that Pope Francis's cool new pope-y puffer jacket

I don't understand the idea that malicious disinformation campaigns are a "sci-fi" threat. I learned yesterday that Pope Francis's cool new pope-y puffer jacket from last week was a Midjourney fake; how many of the things I heard about this week were fakes? What would stop this from being used for malicious purposes? > CNET used an automated tool to draft 77 news articles with financial advice. They later found errors in 41 of the 77 articles. How many other news outlets are using AI and don't know or or don't care about the errors? I'm far from an AI doomer, but it seems incredibly irresponsible to worry about only the risks that are provably happening right this second.