Sure, but how far can it go? complaints about "the MSM" gained traction after the Bush administration fed false information to the New York Times, which printed it credulously and eagerly. It took exactly one misstep to end the broadcasting career of Dan Rather, and that was a deliberate phishing attempt to end his career. The fact that "deepfake" had entered the lexicon long before anyone had seen one in the wild largely immunized all but the credulous against their effects, and the credulous are always only looking for an excuse to believe what they want to believe.

I think the initial impression around LLMs has become "there's no reason to believe it" and it takes a lot longer to regain trust than it does to earn it in the first place. I suspect those who went balls-deep on ChatGPT will be regarded a year or so from now the same way those who went balls-deep on Google Glass: naive backers of an obviously corner-case idea who disregarded all notions of practicality. It's a tool. It has uses. Those uses are narrower than the boosters believe. The world shall continue in its orbit.