It’s the same trend as desktops then laptops then phones then now on small smartwatches, they get good enough and standardized enough that they didn’t really change much anymore. And the mature technology means that as long as the old one works people won’t upgrade it until it breaks.

Except this is terrible for a lot of people and then only measures how well people do at taking tests.

Anything can be analyzed by a Marxist perspective, which basically just uses a class and imperialism type analysis. If there’s a human society it can be applied.

It’s not ai specific. It’s literally everything including basic stuff like sorting newsletters into its own category. That’s why I said it’s all or nothing. It’s just called " smart features" and they’ve had it for a decade, long before ai became a thing. But if you decline then you decline everything. That’s how they do it. They make a huge category and if you decline then you decline everything including things that are considered pretty basic.

The only option is smart features, on or off. That requires Google to read the email to categorize them and do a lot of basic stuff. It doesn’t let you narrowly have more privacy on specific features. It’s all or nothing, and if you get a lot of emails then it’s hard to turn it off if you already use categories. Google always does all or nothing because they know people need some of it, same with location. It has to be precise location tracking to use things, you can’t just do rough location.

While sg1 are foreigners they are technologically primitive so the prime directive wouldn’t even apply to them.