While the US always had fascists, they have been embolstered by Russian propaganda, and people who aren't fascists have been brainwashed into thinking it isn't worse than using pronouns.
Don't give me that "We respect your privacy" bullshit logic.
Every time that sentence is used is to lull users into giving up their privacy. If they actually cared about our privacy, they wouldn't have any need to ask for cookies. Plenty of websites that do respect your privacy, like Wikiedia, that never had a cookie wall.
Same with ads. The only websites I would whitelist are the ones that don't shove ads anywhere.
The entire plot is about getting this girl to a location, only to get there, kill everyone and leave again. They could have stayed at home and the result would have been the same.
Same with The Mandalorian, the ending in Boba Fett completely invalidated the entire show. But that isn't a video game.
Plenty of non-chatbots applications that do help the regular user though. Even if most of it is corporate bullshit, some of it isn't.
Like for example VLC using it for subtitles on any video you have, in any language you want and automatically synced correctly. That they hallucinate a couple of times doesn't really matter in that context.
It has a market for a regular customer base. But they try to shove it down everything just to see what sticks, and most of those things are useless at best or actively making the product worse.
They don't work though, they just convince people it does.