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Controversial search terms highlight flaws in Ex Libris AI Research Assistant

Wait and see, but be actively planning your exit strategy.

Your email address is too important to leave in the hands of a third-party provider. This isn’t to say that using a third-party provider to run your email is a bad idea. You should own the domain, though.

In addition to size of the data transmission being a poor measure of privacy implications (XML versus JSON anyone?), this paragraph is nonsense: "The University of Dublin professor says that this expansive data collection raises at least two major concerns. First, that the telemetry can be used to link physical devices to personal details, data that both companies are most likely exploiting for advertising purposes."

Apple doesn't have an advertising business, nor does it share that information with advertisers.

Had any experiences with them? (Good or bad?)

Thanks for leaving your Gist up there describing the process, Jed. I do some work in VMs, but still found it very useful.