Agree. someone I know involved in the field views LLMs precisely this way : they are a direct attack on human psychology, because their primary training criteria is to make up sets of words that humans believe sound plausible. Not truth, fact based and certainly not in our interests. Just, "what would a human be unable to reject as implausible". When you view it this way, they are almost like human brain viruses - a foreign element that is specifically designed to plug into our brains in an undetectable way and then influence us. And this virus is something that nothing in human evolution has prepared us for. Deployed at scale for any kind of influence operation (advertising or otherwise) it is kind of terrifying to think about.

> Deployed at scale for any kind of influence operation (advertising or otherwise) it is kind of terrifying to think about.

Ironically this kind of influence operation may be the only realistic way to prevent earth from becoming uninhabitable for humans. This is what the likes of Extinction Rebellion should be spending their time on, not blocking roads.

All those years spent not having a Facebook account and hosting my own mail infrastructure have finally paid off.

Wait till the end war comes and they need more cannon fodder.