Maybe some part of it is that the deluge of slop is uncovering how poorly/sloppily these social institutions were working in the first place.
It is as always (think cybersecurity) the cat and mouse game, what is a weapon is also a defense. You, the simple fact that you are on this very site, means that you are probably more educated to AI than most, so it is not necessarily you that will really benefit from any constraining framework.
There are many people believing in many weird theories and those are more prone to be convinced by a nice narrative. AI did not introduce that, it just made it easier and available to anyone with any intent.
It makes it harder, because amount of bullshit goes up and it is easier to generate plausibly sounding bullshitm