You look at the calendar event. Your personal email was never taken off the invitee list. By logging into AI tools, you've been granting them random permissions to test them out. There's nothing work related on your that email anyway, right?

Six months go by. You're in a meeting. You're logged in with your secure company email, talking about a critical product decision. A message appears in the chat, notifying that you're using an AI tool to summarize the meeting. You are not.

You get on with it, ship your first feature, things are going well. In your spare time, you explore some AI tool that could help the team optimise some of those boring jobs: reporting, summarising, writing. None really works the way you want it to, but it's ok, the journey has just started.

When she said the bag so expensive, my pussy came with it. I felt that.

Update: kefir is delicious and the grains are thriving. Looking up ways to use the surplus 😅

User friction can be a great tool in UX design: it can prevent user errors, make load time more interesting, and sometimes avoid unhealthy behaviours like doomscrolling.In this case it's just to make it hard to achieve the user goal.

Don't be intimidated by this form.

Opt out out of spite 👍

AND they send a verification code to your email, adding an extra step to the process. The button did not work on my phone, I had log in to my laptop.

They are just putting hurdles for no good reason.

This is how I filled my form and it was approved right away, in case you're wondering. I did it twice, for 2 separate email addresses, same result. The reply was in Portuguese because of my VPN, so it's probably automatic.