Stop Listening Please, Google
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Stop Listening Please, Google
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#2Do you have Hotword detection or Google home in the house. Sometimes they trigger for wrong keyword. Could it be that they got triggered and added these songs?
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#3Can anyone (perhaps a former employee) confirm this behavior. I can’t tell if I’m imaging connections or the words spoken are being ingested by the ad machine.
It seems like a huge overreach to be listening, the microphone privilege I could see being abused for this, but it just seems so wrong.
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#4I've heard this anecdote from so many people in so many different contexts that I'm beginning to get suspicious about the common "benign" explanations like graphs of friends, their interests, location tracking, etc.
Do we an in-depth analysis done somewhere that proves / disproves the theory of an actual microphone / STT being used either in Android / iOS itself or by a running app?
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#5I've heard this anecdote from so many people in so many different contexts that I'm beginning to get suspicious about the common "benign" explanations like graphs of friends, their interests, location tracking, etc. Do we an in-depth analysis done somewhere that proves / disproves the theory of an actual microphone / STT being used either in Android / iOS itself or by a running app?
There's also the benign explanation of "coincidence".
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#6I've heard this anecdote from so many people in so many different contexts that I'm beginning to get suspicious about the common "benign" explanations like graphs of friends, their interests, location tracking, etc. Do we an in-depth analysis done somewhere that proves / disproves the theory of an actual microphone / STT being used either in Android / iOS itself or by a running app?
There's also the benign explanation of "coincidence".
Yep. How many people talked about a song they don't like, then signed into youtube and saw... not that song, so they didn't post about it.
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#7I like to refer to this system that is always listening as The Daemon because I like to assume it has a commen backend. Also lookup the book Daemon by Daniel Suarez it is pretty great
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#8I've heard this anecdote from so many people in so many different contexts that I'm beginning to get suspicious about the common "benign" explanations like graphs of friends, their interests, location tracking, etc. Do we an in-depth analysis done somewhere that proves / disproves the theory of an actual microphone / STT being used either in Android / iOS itself or by a running app?
>Do we an in-depth analysis done somewhere that proves / disproves the theory of an actual microphone / STT being used either in Android / iOS itself or by a running app?
For mobile, actual voice processing (i.e., not just hotword detection) would have some kind of telltale higher-than-baseline resource consumption. Whether CPU, disk, memory, battery, or network. Processing voice has to happen somewhere, and it takes resources to either do it on-phone or ship it off elsewhere (either immediately or later).
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#9A couple of the most popular hits from 30 years ago. Are you sure you didn’t hear them on some advert recently? Seems less likely that Google discovered your obscure love for Nirvana from a conversation you had.
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#10Can anyone (perhaps a former employee) confirm this behavior. I can’t tell if I’m imaging connections or the words spoken are being ingested by the ad machine. It seems like a huge overreach to be listening, the microphone privilege I could see being abused for this, but it just seems so wrong.
Yes, it happens way too often to be a coincidence. I talk about different topics with friends, they end up on my Youtube feed, not sure how. But I use iphone and a mac though.