this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2026
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The out of touch part is the way they try to convince us to give them our data.
The reasoning they give us never really makes a lot of sense and bounces off the public, but they keep doing it. They might as well not bother, just declare "this is how it is, deal with it" instead of trying to pretend there's any good reason.
Does it though? Lemmy is a bubble, unfortunately normies are using this shit.
Hell, even this site has been inundated with pro-AI sentiment over the past few weeks.
There's an illusion of popularity while AI is artificially cheap, but as the costs of both subscriptions and hardware balloons the huge userbase these AI companies tout to their investors are going to become a lot less interested. The reasoning they give won't actually hold up in the face of price hikes, because for most people AI is a toy and a way to cheat on homework.
But popularity never really mattered. They could just say “this is how it is, deal with it” and not bother trying to convince people AI is the future.