most AI corps pretend not to train on user data. they’re lying, as has been proven repeatedly (most recently with the mathematicians’ codex data getting exfiltrated behind their backs), but they pretend not to apple isn’t even pretending, they need your data it doesn’t matter to them if someone else consented, or if your data or voice are being handled by someone else’s device, and they aren’t particularly subtle about the opt-in being temporary (“not now”) no, it’s not better that apple isn’t lying about it, they’re trying their hardest to normalize surveillance