I don't think any serious person really believes in the AGI fairy-tale anymore. "The machine will learn to improve itself and become god like!"
But there is a softer version of LLMs growing to dominate our world. If a significant portion of the population decides to treat these systems like their best friend and confidant all of those people become very easy to manipulate.
And this is exactly how the people creating these systems expect to cash in.
Forget traditional advertising.
