A lot of these forced "AI" integrations are essentially Clippy on steroids.
A more careful approach focusing on use cases the technology can really support would be much preferred.
Gradually, then suddenly.
Best not to underestimate the extent to which the USA has lost trust in the rest of the world, and how actively people and organisations are working to derisk by disengaging.
Of course that will neither be easy nor particularly fast, but I'm not certain it can be stopped at this point.
If your threat model requires a high level of privacy, there is no case in which you can use any of these tools and providers. Those goals are mutually exclusive.
We should not confuse action with result, not confuse the short term with the long term, and not confuse attention with impact. Predictions are not reality, hype is not interest, letters of intent are not money in the bank.
We've been here before, nothing has been proven yet, and the trough of disillusionment is lurking now too.
Unfortunately, these will be subject to bit rot eventually.
Information on the internet currently does not have the longevity of books, yet books do not have the breadth and depth that can be found on the internet.
Along with curation, this is still an unsolved problem imo.
Have you considered stepping away from startups and shiny-thing, fast growth companies and looking for a role in a company for whom software is not their primary product, or that are in slower moving industries ? Try out insurance/banking, telecommunications, or industrial equipment manufacturers.
Cash would be a reasonable assumption, but not a practical one unfortunately.
The only place really to get cash in Sweden is at an ATM, of which there are very few these days - most have been removed in the past years, and some might be very far away due to the large distances in Sweden.
It should also be assumed that in the event of a critical infrastructure breakdown, the ATMs would not work either.
What current incentive is left for people to publish on the internet?
Discovery mechanisms are less effective than before, people no longer visit your website, copyright is dead and in the end we're just feeding an insatiable machine with slave labour.
Or am I missing something ?