This NPR piece about OpenAI's theft of Scarlett Johansson's voice/identity does a good job providing the context of Altman's knowledge Johansson's work in Her. That's missing from a lot of other pieces on this.
This isn't innovation. This is a data grab, paired with paternalistic language about how this is really in my be st interest.
To be really clear: I DON'T WANT AN ALGORITHM BETWEEN ME AND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR. I CAN DO THIS MYSELF.
To see both this "feature" and this self-serving justification coming from Mozilla is depressing. It's becoming impossible to choose a browser that doesn't require choosing based on the least amount of compromises.
I love how the tech industry's definition of "privacy protecting" practice often means creating another third party that gets access to reams of personal data.
But we can trust them. Because privacy protecting.