I think this article is a little unfair to the lay critics, aka conspiracy theorists. The average user of Facebook has no idea how massive and widespread their

I think this article is a little unfair to the lay critics, aka conspiracy theorists. The average user of Facebook has no idea how massive and widespread their personal data collection machine is. They correctly intuit that Facebook has an absurb amount of personal data on them, but don't have any frame of reference for how most of that data is collected. But the concept of a microphone listening in to private conversations is easy grok, and while it's factually wrong, the effect it points to is a lot closer to reality than the corporate speak they here from the company about how they "Have the utmost care for users personal privacy, blah blah blah". Remember a few years ago when Facebook tried to rebrand itself as a privacy company!? Facebook absolutely has a lot of information that the average person considers personal and private, and big tech companies work hard to mantain the illusion that their data collection isn't as pervasive as it is. With OpenAI, most non-technical users understand that the company has ingested a LOT of creative works done by individuals, most of which weren't expected to be ingested by a giant AI company and potentially regurgitated to millions of users. The better corporate messaging this article argues for will help ameliorate concerns to some degree, but won't address the root of the problem. Most people might have the details wrong, but they are directionally right about the massive data being collected and used by these companies and they have every right to be concerned about that.