It can! For it has already convinced you into thinking this was your idea, so you'd allow it to do the same to others!

Seriously though, you've mentioned an ongoing human fear, machines deciding what you think.

>you've mentioned an ongoing human fear, machines deciding what you think.

There are all kinds of machines that tell us what to think. I would consider any system that abstracts away the human to be a machine in this case. Society itself is one of these machines.

Language is possibly one of the most important things people can have a working knowledge of, especially now that there is so much of it. When you send a prompt to an LLM you're telling it what to think. When it sends text back, its telling you what to think, but you're at a disadvantage, when you think it changes you. The LLM outside of its context is read only.