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[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It's u believable for me, that users all around the world, just ignores the companies litterally forcing their "AI" down your throat. People just see AI as some sort of funny tool, like: "Who cares it's just ai." while the whole private ai wave is the easiest way ever, to cellect ALL of your data, since it is fucking hard for regulators, to actually figure out where this huge piles of data gets stored on the endless datacentres all around the globe. It's like, the whole selling of everybodys data is suddenly ok, as long as its just another ai who does it? We should fucking reject this shit, leave those platforms for good, once they start forcing Copilot and what not, into your lives, just to suck all of your data (including login info, etc).