"fully monetize its userbase yet" funny! with the debt load these AI companies have they will need to enslave their userbase and I 'm not sure that will cover things!
It is often enlightening for a technical person to stand behind a user and watch what they actually do. There is no way, any technical person can predict the completely random things users will do and the completely unfathomable reasons why they do things.
Watching the AI companies selling their, Long on Artificial, No Intelligence, just Automation products as Artificial Intelligence is a woot! The sad part is the public already thinks they have created AGI.
"starts in July" and "can be disabled " figures they would not make utilizing their wide spread past and continuing surveillance opt-in. That proves their continuing bad intentions.
Just Microsoft, being Microsoft, Embrace! Extend! Extinguish!
As for the rest of your usual comment, the future a hellscape, yea maybe!
Anarchist, Communist, Islamist, Marxist, Progressives, Socialist are not Liberals or Democrats If history is any guide, the winning group will eat the rest. Wonder if they will change the name of the party?
The Apple analyst was charged up because it would drive the product replacement cycle(Apple has many older devices still in use, like my old se). And drive service revenue by having Siri choose sponsored products where it can and Apple gets a cut. So Apple AI is just like everyone else's AI. Long on Artificial, No Intelligence, just Automation, an ad/paid sponsors platform used as a sales and marketing tool to drive the Apple revenue streams. But with assurances, nothing will leave the Apple walled garden and only those paying for access to the Apple customers will be allowed in.