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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

And they said years earlier at dev meetings: Microsoft is about data. Harvest all you can. Hence the linked in purchase. They may have not known chatgpt was around the corner, but they did believe that the value is in harvesting as much information as possible.