Artificial Confidence: They all picked September first

All of this secret back and forth with pricing and models and such is really giving me the willies. I'm very much not on the AI bandwagon but I can see that it has it's uses. However, I'm starting to think that maybe it's all just a smokescreen to allow these big companies to do something more ... nefarious.

Are they just playing with parameters or are they doing something more? Is this really like a JVM, where there are thousands of knobs to turn and buttons to push and is' nearly impossible to make the right choice? Are they capturing our data and thoughts and dreams only to turn them back on us in the future?

I think every day that passes causes me to trust "AI", and the companies behind it, less and less.