This headline is somewhat misleading.
They mean most of Allianz’s (1.4m) North America customers, not data of most people in the US.
First read of the headline, I thought it was another Equifax level thing - where a single company has way too much data.
It’s not in-store, but if an app is relatively mainstream it very well might have reviews on https://alternativeto.net/
I agree, this is annoying. It’s taking the place of what used to be an excerpt, giving me a hint about actual text on the page.
I haven’t seen that yet… hopefully it’s on the Duckduckgo side and a setting I can turn off. But it’s probably Reddit continuing to be frustrating.
I’m not against having the AI summary and I do see the utility, it should just be very clearly separated from the real content.
The term for this is openwashing. Seems like it’s been ramping up for a while. Any software or tech vendors know that open(source) is an attractive point, especially to devs. But they don’t want to deal with the realities of it.
Most famous example in recent times is OpenAI, which has that name but not much else.