Well we either accept this, get a movement going where we give the AI millions of deliberately false SMS to ingest, or start using a better messaging solution. Not WhatsApp or Signal.
as with Signal, is not really about what you'll use, but what alternative gains traction and you can persuade your contacts to use. I hope one of the decentralised alternatives is able to rise to mainstream status.
At one point "brave" and "crypto" seemed to appear in the same sentence too often. Put me off Brave.
Everything needs funding, but I don't want in on Ponzis.
It'll need a 1.5GB "drivers" download every week, a subscription to just keep running, forget all its network settings monthly, need an "app" to set it up, and if you don't play a game they like it'll just brick itself?
I reckon I could ask the next 100 people I meet if they knew Tim had donated to DT at least 98 of them wouldn't know. And of those that are Apple users, they'd still buy more from him.
And Telstra can't sell everyone's encrypted messages if we can collectively move on from SMS.