I am sympathetic to the lesson you are trying to illustrate but think you wildly overstate it.
Giving a child a sword is defensible. Giving a child a lead-coated sword is indefensible, because it damages the child’s ability to learn from the sword. This may be a more apt analogy for the situation of real life; equipping humanity with dangerous weapons that did not degrade our epistemology (nukes) eventually taught us not to use them. Equipping humanity with dangerous weapons that degrade our epistemology (advertising, propaganda, addictive substances) caused us to develop an addiction to the weapons. Languages models, once they become more developed, will be an example of the latter category.
I am sympathetic to the lesson you are trying to illustrate but think you wildly overstate it.
Giving a child a sword is defensible. Giving a child a lead-coated sword is indefensible, because it damages the child’s ability to learn from the sword. This may be a more apt analogy for the situation of real life; equipping humanity with dangerous weapons that did not degrade our epistemology (nukes) eventually taught us not to use them. Equipping humanity with dangerous weapons that degrade our epistemology (advertising, propaganda, addictive substances) caused us to develop an addiction to the weapons. Languages models, once they become more developed, will be an example of the latter category.