AI is flooding politics, courts, and jobs with fake content and shoddy work, and the tech billionaires' promised fix — universal basic income — does not add up.

• Trump just posted an AI video of himself dumping a critic in a trash can, showing how realistic and deceptive AI fakes have become.
• "Vibe slop coding" is replacing junior engineers with AI, which grabs short-term profits but destroys the pipeline of people who can fix things later.
• Do-it-yourself AI lawsuits have doubled in a year, swamping courts, and governments could use AI to file weak charges against people too.
• Elon Musk says robots will create endless abundance and the government should just mail everyone checks to cover AI job losses.
• The math does not work: paying every adult $12,000 a year would require doubling federal tax revenue, and Musk himself complains loudly about paying taxes.

Outlook: AI fakes, AI lawsuits, and AI job losses will keep growing, while the billionaires pushing this future have no real plan to pay for the people it displaces.