Perhaps the power of "collecting" is even greater than "consuming"

For example, collecting the thoughts, questions, aspirations, etc. of "AI" users. Much of this appears to be personal or confidential hence the recent OpenAI anouncement about turning over "private chats" to plaintiffs' counsel in copyright infringement litigation

https://sites.google.com/view/elizaarchaeology/blog/3-weizen...

The original "AI chatbot" from the 1960's, "ELIZA", was not "trained on" (it did not consume) much data at all in today's terms. Yet it could solicit larger amounts of data from users who anthropomorphised the computer

If data collection is a goal, as it is with today's Silicon Valley companies, then this is arguably a very effective hack

The "AI" only needs to seem realistic to such individuals