I've had this thought but never put it into words.
The modern tech company or capitalistic enterprise is taking cues from fascism and dictators in how they introduce a small piece of controversy, like a testing of the waters. Wait for an “overreaction” by the masses/their audience/core users, wait for that to burnout and normalize, before flooding the zone with too much to fight or argue with all at once. This is the same way fascism causes burnout and complacency and feelings of helplessness, like there’s nothing to be done to fight the thing.
This is what is being done with AI.