That sounds kind of like deception, and a dark pattern not too unlike abuse to me.

Though you know, it's not like the leadership tied to these companies have a history of abuse, deception and theft or anything like that, right?

It's not like our leaders hide behind similar sorts of patterns that the agents/AIs follow (not saying it's not a human thing - but I hold leadership to higher standards than non-leaders). If our world leaders were able to be more accountable to these abuses, I don't think this would be tolerated with our AIs.