Even 6 or 7 years ago I had a slide in my due diligence training pack saying "it's easy to generate fake documents, it's surprisingly easy to generate fake cash but it's difficult to generate fake buildings and it's very difficult to generate fake people"

“You? You betrayed me?”

Easiest win ever. Guy tried to overthrow the government. You could have locked him up forever the next day and no one would have been able to raise any objection. Hell, you could have executed him and the worst they could say was, "Tough but fair..."

LLMs are the mechanization of bullshit. They offer the appearance of understanding in the absence of knowledge.

Which means that this power, which had previously been the domain of smartass gifted kids impressed with their own cleverness, is now available to EVERYONE.