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There's a big difference between having a website that you can choose to engage with and having LLMs jammed into your device's operating system or programming IDE that make you jump through hoops just to disable them (or your email and then be told your emails are going to be used in training and if you don't want that you have to turn off all the smart features, including the ones that aren't LLM-based).
There would be certain use cases I'd be open to, but at least give me a choice when deploying it out as to whether it's on or off, what it has access to and make it easy to change those settings.
Right. The website that people choose to engage with shows that people are choosing to engage with AI without being forced to. It shows that the demand for AI is organic and real. Lots of people want to use AI.
Of course they do. People want comfort and AI as it is marketed is the ultimate comfort. Doesn't change the harm it does at all, but lots of people are eager to dismiss the harm as long as their comfort is assured.