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All of this Anti-AI crusading has made me curious. AI sure as hell isn't making money, so what keeps something like Meta or Microsoft from dying once they pump all of their money into technology that'll never go anywhere in it's current state?

The answer is telemetry for the purpose of targeted advertising. Google, Microsoft, Meta, and many others gather your personal information and sell it to advertisers. It's all legal, and it's a huge business. In fact, the entire tech industry is more or less built upon it. How else could Meta afford to buy up all it's competition? Your personal data is a valuable asset that is being harvested and sold for profit.

If this paradigm we find ourselves in disgusts you like it does me, you can change things. I'm not actively telling you to do any of these things, but this is what I do. There's certainly more, but this is enough to start with. A part two would boil down to "throw all of your crap out and buy a rotary phone". Nobody's going to do that, so here's Protecting Yourself Without Being a Kook About it. It's not definitive, but it works well for me. I feel much better about my relationship with technology and I get better, more functional software to boot.