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I personally see two major factors :

• it's yet another way to collect data for monetization (selling to governments and advertisers).
• it's a symptom of market culture : it exists not to serve the user, but to be a product to sell to the user. In that light, it behaves and evolves exactly as any other thingy which tries to reinvent itself year after year, to keep customers interested, regardless of its intrinsic value as an operating system.

but that's just me, I can't claim to understand the inner workings of Microsoft

AI is obviously the next big thing. If your product isn't full AI right now, you'll miss out.

So basically I'm convinced the reason everyone's chasing AI is all just greed and fomo. People at the top of the ladder seem generally more detached from reality.

Three big things, from most to least obvious:

1. They own openai, which is a ponzi scheme.
2. They are spying on you. Obviously. This is a better excuse to do more of that more openly.
3. This creates a corporate controlled abstraction layer between you and everything you do with any networked device, puts more decision control and discernment in the corporation's hands. When Amazon tried to move to voice based ordering, it was on this same logic; that you would say 'alexa, order toilet paper' and they would choose the toilet paper to order based on what's best for them-sponsored, most profitable, etc, like you can only buy things from a selfish hyper sociopathic genie. LLM based ux doesn't just put the corporation between you and products, but between you and all information, between you and truth.

If your program/OS has to constantly phone home to operate, you can't easily distinguish the traffic related to it's operation from the traffic snooping all your data. Extra points if you willingly give the AI access or information.