I'm not going to fabricate stories, but if the explanation for something is "AI was used irresponsibly" then I would tend to not dismiss the idea. And I'd be prone to propagate the idea far more. It's not a conscious choice mind you, that statement is a result of self-reflection.
The way people unquestionably, irresponsibly, and without the slighest contemplation of the ramifications, are using AI for the most mundane tasks, worries me. Why do you need to make a photo of someone, who haven't accepted the use case, into a drawing? Why do you need to have an AI transcribe our meeting and summarize the points? Nobody's going to read the summary anyway, and now some unknown entity knows what other people said with an otherwise ordinary expectation of privacy.
One thing is that tech overlords have already scraped every image, sound bite, video clip, and written word publicly, and semi-publicly, available. Don't give them more material.