The AI hype is so big and tech companies are blinded by this, is incredible that Google ship this to his first and flagship product on by default to many users, and not opt out option (I conclude that by the OP article).

I remember see Google launching features off by default with some nagging to turning on, but this is so greedy and dictated by the race on AI, every company want to have AI on their branding like the popular girls on Mean Girls want to be in that group.