A Brave New World indeed it will be! I'd happily live amongst the savages

Plastic ballots and mimic Japans system.

And out trot the Oompa Loompas with their newest track about obese lesbian PoCs

Not the guy you replied to but humans are definitely programmable to override reason. Think about how stupid your average person is, half the population is dumber. ChatGPT is still an impressive parlor trick until it can be applied productively to real challenges.

"new convenient features" that require more of your information

To your point, at the very least they're throttling the open market to prevent competition from rising.