…NOT!

I promise you, as someone overcome with sadness from watching the so-far unsolvable problems of mankind that will lead to the end of the world as we know it - Living a life where one believe simulated intelligence could solve anything at all is a dream. Ignorance is bliss.

It’s just big tech selling convenience for the trillionth time

No, once more they’re selling the impression of convenience. I.e. having the entire backend exposed to hackers because it was so convenient to vibe-code access control is not a real convenience.

They are NOT doing out of good will

Only idiots argue for such an intention.

they’re doing it to sell your data, to train their ai on it

No, they’re doing it to harvest our data. This allows them to use machine learning on the datasets but more traditionally, build profiles on their users. Access to the profiles is what they’re selling, not direct access to log data.

and do other nefarious stuff with everything you have

Then they need to step up their game as I’m self-hosting everything on a home-server. But I know what you mean. They want to do downright evil stuff with everything they can get their dirty, sticky paws on.