I want to add my interpretation of the phrasing "rewrite people's awareness" to make it read less tinfoil-hatted:
"rewire brains for AI dependency" (for money and power reasons obvious to everyone).
In contrast to "secretly implant an agenda about non-AI subject N", which is complicated enough that AI companies are still too out of control to be attempting yet.
I think tips are one of the more crucial parts of a blade, so if you care about how that blade works you probably don't want the shape to deviate there.
Not from principle. Marketing is hateful work and almost necessarily anti-art, so I don't care. Of course you can do it badly (for example, unironically advertise to an artist audience with terrible slop illustrations).
I don't get that impression from that page. It definitely doesn't say you can't buy a tailored recommendation list to promote your product specifically, but I don't believe all of the listed products have paid for their existence on the site (for now. That might be the end goal though.)
Yes, it really is that simple. They chose that responsibility the moment they allowed those characters. Any deductions done after that need to have a failsafe with the expectation they will break a clueless user's device.