a blog post by my friend eevee which is, y’know, preaching to the choir about exactly what you think, but. yeah. https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
Thanks for this. Also has a useful tip:
If you are unfortunate enough to have a recent Pixel phone, it's at least possible to reliably turn all this crap off — go to System > Apps > Show all apps, use the three-dots menu to "Show system", tap "AICore", and disable it.