The Exit Statements: Why Users Are Naming AI as the Reason They're Leaving

The trust failure at the center of this beat is not about bad content existing — it is about AI content occupying positions that assumed human presence. The art event invitation that looked legitimate until one click deeper ^[26] is a precise illustration of how that failure works: the mechanism of trust (a social account, an event promotion) was intact, but the thing it pointed to was not. Users are now doing that extra click as a habit, and what they find is changing their behavior.