Exactly. I agree with gato a lot of the time, but I don't think we'll be getting a choice at all. We'll get the crazy AI because a "free" AI would blow up the cushy spot that the leaders have carved out for their censorship empire.

Ironically, I just wrote about this today (before reading this article)

simulationcommander.sub…

Consider an AI run by Microsoft (or Google). It will never argue against lockdowns like a Screamer. It will never protest funding the war in Ukraine like a Screamer. It will make sure you know every election the Swamp wins was “the cleanest election ever” — and it will lie to you before that election about “embarrassing” facts that might swing voters. In other words, AI will say whatever its programmers demand, because the system has ALREADY been censored.

At best we’ll get a ‘critics argue’ throw away line in paragraph 8 as a way to handwave away any criticism of the current thing. (So narrative supporters can repeat the often-misused phrase “That’s already been debunked!”)