If that happens, I wonder if future generations will believe us when we insist that wasn't the intention; We just wanted a helpful AI that takes pictures of what you're doing every 5 seconds in case we forgot what chinese food place we like.

"We" didn't want anything. Microsoft just makes decisions and most people have no choice but to go along with it.

Pick any word you want. I don't care and that's not the point of my post.

given the open source and proprietary implementations of this elsewhere, people actually do want this feature, even if you don't.