Yes, I agree and this annoys me. From a privacy perspective, it's still better to have fifty siloed data stores that aren't allowed to mix than for your data to be in a single large store that can do whatever it wants.

And when you consider the comparison, it's even worse: the data they're refusing to allow Apple to train on is _public_ data. There were several court cases in the early 1900's where owners of big buildings tried to sue photographers for selling pictures of their buildings (or pictures that included their buildings) and it was finally agreed that since the building was in public, pictures of it were fair game. If you're putting an article on the internet for anybody to read, "anybody" seems like it would include an AI as well.