Oh, you took me back so many years, mentioning the chain letters. I have such a vague memory of them and I didn't even remember what was written in them, but I remember they were handwritten with a pen and when I found one in my mailbox I was pretty freaked out. That was so long ago.
Yes, people are dangerous, I think that is the more accurate definition, at least from my point of view and my perception. They are dangerous not only for others, but even for themselves. And when a self-destructive weapon like AI is put into their hands, they become even more dangerous and will shoot randomly like a mentally ill person who got hold of a machine gun.
Whether they are lazy is debatable. I've always wondered why the enormous effort that goes into developing a colossal scam isn't put into something meaningful, something useful. Humans are capable of putting truly incredible funds, time, knowledge and skills into creating debit card skimming devices for example, every era, every decade or every year has its own incredible fraudulent inventions of the human brain designed to deceive other people. And this is not a sign of laziness in any case. It is something else that I personally cannot fathom. But I wish I too had that elation with which YouTubers gleefully and shamelessly lie to people while ingloriously searching for ways to survive the moral way, because that way almost always fails...