Tech Ping!..................
I just assume that everything is listening in. That includes “smart” refrigerators, Roombas, of course TVs, etc.
Like those Smart TVs
If Zuckerburg were in my 6th grade class I would’ve loved to beat the crap out of him after school. He’s just that type of guy.
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How many of us have had the experience of talking about something near “Alexa” - and seeing ads pop up that are directly related to that conversation?
This happened right in front of us while we contemplated replacing our refrigerator. Neither one of us “asked’ Alexa, but it began displaying appliance ads during the conversation.
AI has already been with us for some time.
I read the fine print on those apps. They tell you that they can, without your permisson or knowledge, use your camera, microphone, ransack your contact lists, and read emails.
Hell — the social media places aren’t doing anything wrong. ...
Betcha the ‘mike access’ is built into the cpu and hardware and its a backdoor benefit, made in china. Its not a problem, its a feature !
I would like to take Old Zuck for an offshore fishing trip..
Gibb’s’ Rule #39: There is no such thing as a coincidence!
“Gibb’s Rule #40: If it seems like someone’s out to get you, they are!”
Here’s a simple experiment anyone can try:
Gather all of your smartphones and smart devices in one place.
Turn off all of the apps on your smartphones and smart devices. But leave them on.
Now start discussing a vacation to a place that you have never talked about going before, A place you have no intention of visiting, And a place that you have no desire to visit.
Now sit back and watch as the advertising comes in for hotels in that place, airlines to get you to that place, travel insurance, and et cetera.
And even though you were telling this information to your smart devices watch as the advertising comes in through the mail, youtube, email, and even on the telephone.
My wife is the phone talker in our family, and the big time texter to keep up with family/friends from the east coast to the midwest and throughout California.
Whatever, she discusses and/or texts re products or services wise in those areas often shows up as an ad sometimes in minutes.
A couple of months ago we had a new LG dishwasher from Costco and had it delivered and installed by Costco. A friend warned us not to discuss critical things in our kitchen.
A nearby relative bought a different brand from a local big time household retailer and installed at the same time.
If my wife and our relative discuss how their new DWers are doing. The relative gets LG ads/texts, and my wife gets ads re their dwer.
I wonder if Musk is aware that Alphabet/Google has admitted that most of its A.I. engineers are Chinese working in China ( reported very casually on business news program this morning).
Facebook has done this for years now. Have people been living under a rock or something???
Google listens all the time. I was streaming Dan Bongino and the google “assistant” which i turn off. Kept popping up and the results showed “missing context” warnings about everything it listened to. Unfortunately I am stuck using these evil companies so there is no getting away from this other than by turning them off. I would pull the batteries but they are sealed up now.
Ping for later!
“Meta has repeatedly decided that the platform is listening in on users’ private conversations, saying, “Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp do not listen in or use the cell phone microphone to influence advertising in any way.””
yeah, right ... supposed to be DENIED, not DECIDED ... obviously written by a complete moron OR AI and not checked by an editor ...
There are videos that show ads related to what is being said showing up as the poster talks. I have had this happened on the phone and on my computer.