Yep. Or "We will make our product worse until profits go up!"
Fascinatingly, this works sometimes, at least for a while. Look at Microsoft for a current example.

It is. That is why things like this stupid "Code Red" work. It is all just about who pretends better that their product actually has merit (or will have merit soon, promise!) beyond the few it can actually do well.

Yep, kind of feels like it.

I agree. Well, you cannot get everything out and specific things like, say, SSN or more common health problems, can be blanked out with patterns. But misspell the name of the condition you have or describe it instead of using its name and you are already screwed in most cases. And names, quasi-identifiers of people, etc. are basically impossible to recognize reliably.

Hence what needs to be done here is also that anybody working on the data needs to be under oath to not leak any personal data and all processing must be done on isolated infrastructure. Obviously, that makes things slower and more expensive.

Training data, issue diagnosis, market research, targeting data for ads, probably to sell it to others at some time.

Such a shame. I think we should be "tough on crime" on these people!

That is somewhat surprising to me. They are 95% crap these days.

But in modern times it has stopped doing that. Now it is a hard-to-learn, hard-to-use historical artefact. Either move to something that makes sense today or stop complaining. You are doing it to yourselves.

And then we have victims with Stockholm-Syndrome that are deep in denial and mod everybody down that states the truth...

Indeed. With raising security, reliability and usability demands, it is just becoming more and more obvious that they do not have it.

Indeed. Although I would submit they _are_ already Boeing. The complete hack of Exchange online, the actor-token disaster, the Sharepoint-disaster, their part in the Crowdstrike disaster, AD still being a mess, Win11, Office, etc. There is not a single well-usable, reliable and secure major product they make.

The problem is, while MS has decidedly killed massively more people than Boing when comparing aggregated lost lifetime, all these are non-spectacular, there are no smoking data-centers with ambulances rushing the injured to hospital, etc. The second problem is that Boeing has competition, which keeps them somewhat honest (yes, that is a stretch, but still true), while Microsoft lacks that competition.

Indeed. And it is not only Windows. Office is slowly getting worse and wastes more and more user time. Azure got hacked several times and has crass vulnerabilities only explainable by extreme incompetence.

Same hardware, same software on three systems that ran win10 before. No problems with Win10. Now I observe system, driver, gui and application crashes that never happened before. I get notification tones that I cannot identify or turn off. Things are harder to find. Log-in screen pictures vanish. Some things got slower. And other crap.

Win11 is a pretty seriously worse product than Win10. Fortunately, all my critical systems are Linux, but Microsoft is obviously going downhill.

You wish. Try harder. Well, you probably cannot.

Yep. That nicely sums it up. And a ton of idiots in denial praying to the new LLM God.