Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
Regarding AI, I get tired of seeing a lone wolf come and attack where it probably should run away. Same when you are a bad ass warrior and some toll road minion is trying to collect some taxes. They should either run or make small talk and act like nothing is going on to get you to leave them...
These companies use it for marketing/research purposes, there's no way they would hold on to this data voluntarily unless they were being paid for the storage.