Blackmail is losing value, not gaining; it's simply becoming too easy to plausibly disregard something real as AI-generated, and so more people are becoming less sensitive to it.

"Ok Tim, I've send a picture of you with your "cohorts" to a selected bunch that are called "distant family". I've also forwarded a soundbite of you called aunt sam a whore for leaving uncle bob.

I can stop anytime if you simply transfer .1 BTC to this address.

I'll follow up later if nothing is transferred there. "

To be honest, we have too many people that can't handle anything digital. The world will suffer sadly.

How is this better then? It drowns out real signal in noise.