If you are living quietly in Maine, working a job and raising a family - it shouldn’t be necessary that you know about a budding conflict in Africa to be ‘well-informed.’
This is one of the absurdities that the modern media environment creates. Having a crumb of distorted info
“marine, what is that button on your armor?”
“it says 'incel freak' sir”
“but arent you a wife guy, marine?”
"yes i am, sir.”
“an 'incel freak' chungus wife guy? is that some kind of sick joke?”
“i think i was trying to say something about the duality of man, sir”
The danger of AI is not that it will actually become a sentient godlike being, but that the average person will treat it like it is so. And that is already happening.