Definition
Personal Data Lake
An individual's curated pipeline of personal context shared with AI tools — the personal-scale equivalent of an enterprise data lake. Raises strategic questions: what data do you share with which systems, does it stay on-device (Apple Intelligence model) or go to servers (Google model), and which companies do you trust as data stewards? Geoff sees an emerging bifurcation between ad-funded AI services and privacy-preserving paid services — with major trust implications for both.
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