
It isn’t better, it’s even worse IMO. But it’s just the truth. It is verifiable enough that apps cannot just spy via your microphone in any reasonably modern OS, not even the old versions. What has never been verified though is that there are non-zero-day-exploit-ways to spy through your microphone.
It’s not like they’re using an LLM like ChatGPT. Science and research has used AI for years and it has a very big potential.
Most people nowadays mistake AI as LLM, and aren’t aware of the scientific fields where AI has been and is used, and has been used for way longer than LLMs are publicly known.