I don't think I've seen the opposite in place where someone is up front about using AI. There are many things where it's clear that AI is being used though, and it's not deceptive.
There's a lot of videos where the voice is synthesized via AI, and the words themselves are written by AI.
I could go into AI and say 'write a video narration all about Ubuntu's history', and then put that into a speech synthesis. And then perhaps just download other people's footage and edit it all together. It could be more efficient, but it's not something I really want to make.
But I also know that being able to get videos out consistently and quickly is favored by Youtube algorithm so in theory that would be a way to earn money making content. The incentives are always there.

Also with the driver issue you mentioned:
I'm using the Noveau/Gallium open driver right now because I'm on an outdated system, and I put off updates forever. I did a big update, and found I couldn't log into my desktop.
Uninstalled Nvidia driver and I can log in again with the open ones.
But I also have experienced the random lock ups with the open driver.
I'm hoping I've got it figured out now, and the next time I install them it will let me log in. I removed some packages that had some weird possible ties to Nvidia, but I'm trying to finish this video before I get back to breaking things.
With Radeon/AMD the main/official driver is the open-source one.