This was always the end game for Ring. I think people were saying this since before the Amazon acquisition. The acquisition itself always struck me as Amazon attempting to reduce "shrinkage" - brick and mortar stores have their "loss prevention" team and Amazon has Ring.

The bottom line with technology is that you either host and control it yourself or you're at the whims of the vendor's business strategy.

Unfortunately you can’t opt out. The surveillance network blankets virtually everyone - friends, family, all of society.

This is also the end game for LLMs