There are people that send the vast majority of the money they make to televangelists who are not speaking to them 'directly' and yet those individuals would tell you said speaker is communicating directly with them.
This is how a lot of propaganda over the radio and TV works.
Great point, actually. In many respects these language models doing this could be similar to how YouTube used to platform Alex Jones before removing him. Regardless, I still believe its the responsibility of the creators of these models to work on mitigations
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> Even though there's no person in the loop
contradict each other. There is always a person in the loop, and the LLM is actually reacting to their messages, however wrong it turns out. They could have chosen a positive interaction instead. The LLM reflects back what the human puts in.