Compared to what we have proof the US government have engaged in before? Do people not remember PRISM anymore? It was virtually impossible to think of the scope before it was leaked, and you'd be marked as a conspiracy theorist for believing that happened, before it was made concretely true.

I think it's borderline naive to assume various agencies haven't infiltrated OpenAI, Anthropic and others, essentially the entire world was wiretapped by NSA in the past, to assume they don't have an employee or two at these companies does seem a bit naive to me.

Agencies like the CIA have infiltrated the news agencies, so they have indirect power over the information that LLMs consume.

Yup, that's data poisoning on worldwide scale.

So there's no reason for the CIA to poison LLMs at all then according to you?

Tampering with pretraining is as simple as uploading a few pages to github. See pliny