Too much of the public discourse on artificial intelligence favors utopian hype or existential risk, or boom and doom, while ignoring more pressing, sociologically-informed risks to humanity. While AGI coming to save us or Terminator coming to kill us are alluring intellectual pursuits, Generative AI threatens to destabilize multiple social mechanisms concretely: an applicant signaling interest in a job with a well-tailored cover letter, a defendant using video evidence as an alibi, or a high-fidelity voice-cloning scammer stealing money from your grandma. Some of these mechanisms are already broken, while others are in the process of breaking.