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

  • Aatube
    1•4 days ago

    That Google blog also says the same thing except it’s written by a human. I’m not disputing that AI can process audio data into ad statistics; I’m disputing that audio data is constantly recorded and sent.

    I interpreted Farts as saying that the device listens to key ad words just like it listens for “Hey Siri”, and I asked how it decides which words to listen to. Each ad campaign has their own keywords, and if you want to personalize, you’ll have to listen to all of the words from every campaign, which would be equivalent to listening to everything and would severely degrade performance.

    • @horse_battery_stapleEnglish
      1•4 days ago

      Reread my response to you. It’s not a stream, it’s locally held as tokens and then streamed over wifi while charging. I don’t see any sources posted by you. I think we’re wasting each other’s time.

      • Aatube
        1•4 days ago

        And the tokens would have to be analyzed from audio, which has to be recorded first. Held temporarily or not, it’s mostly the same.