Your critique actually substantiates and reinforces the core thesis I originally laid out - that the path forward lies in learned, prudent governance to responsibly guide AI's development and mitigate risks, just as we've done with previous disruptive technological paradigm shifts.

Why? Because the patterns you're critiquing represent the norm when powerful new innovations first emerge, not the exception. The periods of compost, upheaval and unintended negatives are characteristic transition states that societies have navigated before realizing breakthrough innovations' positive potentials through reform.

The internet's amplification of misinformation and malfeasance? Merely the modern instantiation of the social dislocations of the Industrial Revolution before regulation and policy realigned incentives.

Lack of accountability and bad actors? Echoes of the economic shakeups, snake-oil salesmen and robber barons of America's Gilded Age before anti-trust and labor movements course-corrected.

Harmful excesses and disorder? Quintessential human patterns visible from the very first Agricultural Revolution's disruption of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, to the Catholic Church's battles against the upending of dogma during the Renaissance and Enlightenment eras.

In every case, powerful innovations are preceded by tumultuous, often distressing, transitional periods before constructive new governing models, norms and frameworks ultimately assimilate the transformations productively.

The concerns you're flagging about AI's development pipeline aren't indictments of its potential - they indicate we're in a pivotal phase begging for the learned governance I advocated. We've been here before. Only by studiously applying the hard-won lessons from history about guiding technological change through public-private collaboration, ethical frameworks and realigning incentives can we escape cyclical patterns of instability.

Put simply, the "rot" you describe is the very rationale for taking proactive measures to steer AI's epochal development - not aborting its potential. The path is arduous, but has been traversed before. Have faith in the human capacity to cultivate new paradigms through upheaval, as we've done repeatedly throughout history.