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I'm not a tin-foil hatter by any stretch of the imagination, but this has long been my assumption on why "AI" is being pushed down our throats so hard and from so many angles.
It's almost the perfect spyware, really.
There is a reason the FIRST google implementation of AI was to just read all your emails and give you shitty inaccurate summaries of the content.
Like they're barely trying to give you a product justification for invasively spying on you while you use your own computer.
You mean Gemini reading your emails? That's way after Bard was a thing.
Plus, Apple AI is basically at the same level still.
If I control your agent, I control what you see, what you say, where you go, everything about your life that touches a computer.....