i guess y'all can contort yourself for whatever logic you want. sounds to me like you'd make excuses if they also made it so you couldn't even turn it off at all since its a 'new phase' and all.
show me a a screen that says 'do you want to turn this on?' with a yes/no option. not doing that is wrong, especially with generative AI. i'll die on that hill.
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