This could very well be true, but if so then would that not make what people are calling AI some form of a mechanical-turk, possibly an evolution of the societal control to manipulate people, businesses and governments? Meaning that it may have 99% accurate data-sets but can be tuned to achieve desired answers? I could see such a thing being very powerful when writing scientific research papers when a machine learning system can reach a desired conclusion with very realistic and believable data sources. What I mean is that the societal control that social media have over people may be reaching a plateau so perhaps this AI is the natural evolution.

It is not even clear to me that AI exists. Everything described when people talk about AI or ChatGPT just sounds like a market rebranding of Big-Data and Machine Learning. If it can not Show Its Work then the hype around this may just be driving the next set of hidden algorithms to replace Twitter, Facebook, etc...