It may be even worse as you said, however AI currently is more present in the news and maybe easier to understand because of this.

Also chatgpt had a huge amount of personal info leaked to the dark net, not really because they got hacked, but because the users put their login credentials into fishing websites.

But also, as any thing you input into chatgpt/Bing chat/bard is scanned, it can also be a big antitrust/corporate espionage as openai/microsoft and Google may be able to spy on any users who may leak the development of another AI.