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TL;DR Microsoft needs your data to make more money from you after you pay for their products.
I do think they genuinely aim for some technical delivery at the moment. It will definitely all be turned to shit in the upcoming decade. This article does have a title that doesn't match it, though. It's more about the ridiculousness of
I mean I probably should have bolded the "DR" part. But I feel like I'm probably right, MS are scum, they're worse than Facebook and Google. At least the others can maintain the pretence that user data theft is some kind of exchange for free access.
You can't build a car without paying for the nuts and bolts. We make the nuts and bolts (data), there's a trillion dollar industry trading our nuts and bolts, and we don't get paid anything. People say it's worth pennies per year, but trillions of dollars on 8 billion people mean that peoples' data is worth somewhere around $1,000 per year.
Also, chief scientist is also on the letter demanding the board go re-hire Altman. ???
Yea, thr whole thing is truly messed up.