Let's imagine for a second that the whole AI craze doesn't exist, but you still would want to real-time note-taker, what would you do?

Indeed, you bring a literal third person to the table. That will just be sitting there, listening in on your conversation and writing everything  down.

How fucking creepy is that?! How fucking awkward is that? And before you start talking with whoever you're catching up with, you ask "You don't mind, do you?"

That is extremely creepy. I'd be weirded out and walk away. Why would it be any different if it's a computer listening in and passing every word that's being said through multiple layers of AWS, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic just to be sure that every word is captured?

That is fucking weird.