One of my weirder hobbies is trying to convince people that the idea that companies are listening to you through your phone’s microphone and serving you targeted ads is a …

Not my title! I do think we are being listened to. And location tracked. And it’s being passed on to advertisers. Is it apple though? Probably not is my take away from this article, but I don’t trust plenty of others, and apple still does

  • @serenissiEnglish
    3•3 days ago

    That’s done locally. You can try training wake word models for any open assistant and see how much computing power it needs for even simple phrase.