The entire world is just one big scam and the stress this is producing in western nations is palpable. Social media was bad enough, but now that the AI genie is out of the bottle, we're pretty well at humanity's endgame.
And this was all foretold by top scientists during the Internet's infancy, with the predicted outcome of computer models being online political and ideological factions radicalizing and creating an ever-growing divide between the general population, group-think promoting violence, misogyny, and radical ideologies being given a dark place to grow, massive population migration based on the top 0.01% of western lifestyles being widely promoted across the globe, with the world finally descending into chaos and warfare.
Anything there sound familiar?
The "lunatics take over the asylum" and "everyone picks a side" part was quite prevalent, and points back to our general human nature to want to belong and be "part of the herd", as well as those with the most free time (unemployables, the mentally ill, students, the idle rich, etc.) would be given the loudest online voice.
And these computer models didn't even take into consideration the presence of AI. It was just a "what the hell is going to happen as the Internet expands and takes over our lives?" kind of scenario. With AI, everything is accelerating a lot faster than anticipated.