Our news media world has been turned upside down again. As always, serious technological change produces both dystopian and utopian hype. Much of this has been generated on social media by corporate PR and politicians. News coverage and expert commentary has also veered from excited coverage of positive breakthroughs in fields such as medicine to much more frightening visions of negative forces unleashed: Generative AI (genAI) is producing a tidal wave of automated, undetectable disinfor