I think that where we differ is in our assessment of the threat to privacy as it already exists and as engendered by AI training data.

From my perspective, we have every reason to believe that every call and all our metadata is already on an NSA server. Any data that exists is already tapped. If the NSA felt like training their on AI on your data, they could do it with a button press. So - who has a better profile of you? Google, which has to use the data you give them permission to use? Or the NSA? Which can use whatever the fuck it wants from everyone you communicate with?

I think most people are oblivious to the surveillance state we already live in, and utterly naive about the profile we project of ourselves simply by interacting with the world. And I suspect that most of the disquiet about "not okay, Google" comes from having the abyss stare back at you.

So really - people freaking balls about Google are the ones that haven't been paying attention since 2006. Personally? I do not suffer fools.

And if the NSA is going to have a digital dossier on me anyway, why the fuck not at least let Google give me one for my own benefit.