This is exactly it. We already have foreign state actors & profit maximizing corporate actors working against the average western citizens interest. They're a

This is exactly it. We already have foreign state actors & profit maximizing corporate actors working against the average western citizens interest. They're already doing their level best to exploit those foolish and credulous to be easy marks. This is already taking our societies to a place where life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are no longer in mosts grasp. So yeah, generative A.I. will allow a deluge of content that means a significantly greater percent of the population get entangled in the web of propaganda. In the same way that recommended feeds with targeted adverts & content has already been doing. A pause in A.I. research might stop us being turned into paper clips. But without a fundamental restructuring of how our big tech companies are funded the societies we know are still utterly doomed. Either the user or the state is going to need to pay. Our current system where tech companies fund themselves by selling their users minds to those who would exploit them will take us somewhere very dark with the technology that's already out there.