>I think, unfortunately, they will learn too late that building censorship and thought-shifting tools into their LLMs will ultimately put them at the mercy of larger forces, and they may not like the results.
That the optimistic view -- people with fancy tools can outsmart the people with money and people with money can outspend the people with power, but only on a short distance. Eventually, the big G catches up to everything and puts it all to use. It also turns out to not be that bad anyway (example: read how software developers working for government were described in the snow crash).
The less optimistic view -- the government doesn't catch up to it before the changes to society result in it's collapse (case in point -- industrial revolution, religious wars and invention of the ethnic language-based republics).
I'm not entirely sure that we are in the optimistic one, unfortunately.
That the optimistic view -- people with fancy tools can outsmart the people with money and people with money can outspend the people with power, but only on a short distance. Eventually, the big G catches up to everything and puts it all to use. It also turns out to not be that bad anyway (example: read how software developers working for government were described in the snow crash).
The less optimistic view -- the government doesn't catch up to it before the changes to society result in it's collapse (case in point -- industrial revolution, religious wars and invention of the ethnic language-based republics).
I'm not entirely sure that we are in the optimistic one, unfortunately.