There may be several more of these paid-for puff pieces for Infosys, a.k.a. 'Microsoft India' (they do some of Microsoft's own operations). That's like 80% of what they published yesterday!
Summary: Infosys was mentioned and promoted in at least half a dozen 'articles' in MIT Technology Review yesterday (there may be more; the above is not exhaustive); days prior to that MIT Technology Review published a lot of Microsoft SPAM that helped distract from Microsoft's waves of layoffs, so this publication is clearly defunct (coverage 'on sale')
Fact #1: over time slop gets worse (training set is like some blurry JPEG). Fact #2: People's "smell" for slop improves over time, as they 'train' on slop and can detect it based on prior encounters. Put 1 and 2 together.
Richard Stallman's seminal manifesto and foundational (practical) work on GNU gave us a very solid system that facilitates productive work without concerns over spyware
