I wrote about the AI trust crisis: when companies like Dropbox and OpenAI say "we won't train models or your private data", it's increasingly clear that a lot of people simply don't believe them.
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/14/ai-trust-crisis/
When creepy dudes in white vans offer school children walking to school a puppy or candy for "free", we know how to respond.
When Google and Microsoft offer "free" email or backups or storage, you'd think we'd recognize the creepy dude, but no...
