Luna

How much of the data do you think is collected

I would assume all data that companies can get their hands on. Fun fact, I installed Windows 10 in a VM a few days ago and it had like 5 “do you want to send us optional data or only the required data? Y/n” screens in the installer alone 💀

kept, and used long term

Probably until you request it’s deletion using a law like GDPR. Data is valuable because:

1. it’s used in targeted advertising
2. it can be sold to data brokers
3. it can be sold to government agencies
4. depending on the type of data, it might be usable for AI training/can be sold to AI companies

I avoid AI content because it’s sort of an intellectual goo. It looks like there were some thoughts behind it, smells like it, and then you notice the distorted letters or certain writing style patterns. The AI we have currently is not sentient, so if there are no humans in the loop doing quality control then you end up with an AI telling people to eat rocks while citing The Onion. I lose trust in anything when I spot that a part of it was AI generated - without being explicitly marked as such - for this reason

Then there’s AI’s heavy association with corporations/VCs/tech bros, giant waste of electricity, bias in the training data, legality and ethical implications of training AI on data from the entire internet, people losing jobs, companies running sweatshops of people in 3rd world countries to manually classify said data, the list goes on and on