The Internet and social media in particular, which essentially guarantee anonymity and prevents accountability, have pretty much destroyed trust. When the current torrent of AI-generated text and images is added to the picture, trust can safely be declared dead, and it shows no signs of being resurrected.
This technology was exciting and promising at the outset some decades ago, but it has gone astray, led off the path by the promise to platform providers of fabulous wealth and by the arguably justified confidence that the ignorance and inaction of people sleeping at the wheel, including both legislators and user-victims, would protect their gold mine.
Given the poor prognosis for recovery, I think it’s time to retreat from the digital world and advance (back) into the real world, and the real world is not on your iPhone screen or computer display.
Get real!