This seems to be a trend with a lot of AI usage, which will be accelerated with consumer-facing agents. Attempting to save the user a small amount of time ends up wasting the time of countless others. The erosion of social trust you bring up compounds the damage significantly.
I suspect there are just nontrivial amounts of people out there that do not consider the second-order effects of their actions.
I'm not even and LLM hater. I just really think that the interconnectedness of the internet has caused the death of etiquette, simply because there is no culture when every culture in the world is all participating all the time. Etiquette is useful, even when it's effectively arbitrary.
Attempting to save the user a small amount of time ends up wasting the time of countless others.
That’s email in general. AI is just better at it.
AI is extending it out beyond the realm of email or any single technology.
For example, the rogue Muse agent who started sending people to the seller's house when he wasn't home, without telling him. There are many more examples and the list keeps growing longer as the capabilities of the models and agents improve.