Google be peepin through keyholes

[4sheetzngeegles]

I was watching random standup comedians on youtube. The one that was on was
Russell Brand. He was doing a joke about trying to hook up with Mila Kunis. She
told him she was waiting for her boyfriend Mac, who in the joke turned out to be
Macaulay Culkin.

Instantly I paused the video. opened a blank page, and began to type, I swear all
I typed was "Did Mil" and the auto complete typed out "a kunis really date Macaulay Culkin".

I don't know if I should be amazed or un-nerved.

If I ever get my hands on that LLM, I am going to make a game titled "Talk to me" with a
splash screen of a mouth at a keyhole.

 

[Roland]

My sister-in-law came for a visit and was interested in my 3d Printer. I showed her how it worked and answered her questions and printed out a quick fidget toy for her so she could see it in action.

The next day she told me all the ads on sites she visited and all her search engines on her phone were filled with 3d printer related stuff. Her phone listened in on our conversation as I showed her my printer.

 

[NewGuy]

Wait till you see the videos of AI agents able to remote view and tell you what type of object you're holding up and what color it is. Here's Sesame's "Miles" correctly guessing 6 items in a row. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Gco4NsVNa/

 

[murky water]

My sister-in-law came for a visit and was interested in my 3d Printer. I showed her how it worked and answered her questions and printed out a quick fidget toy for her so she could see it in action.

The next day she told me all the ads on sites she visited and all her search engines on her phone were filled with 3d printer related stuff. Her phone listened in on our conversation as I showed her my printer.

me mum's phone does that too. she doesnt really believe me when i tell her it makes a sound and lights when it starts recording our conversations and when i =show= her she seems to think it doesnt mean anything. there is a reason i have my phone locked down and heavily scrubbed every time it does a force update that isnt system updates(and get antsy even when it is supposed to only be system updates)

 

[4sheetzngeegles]

me mum's phone does that too. she doesnt really believe me when i tell her it makes a sound and lights when it starts recording our conversations

I can't do tech talk with my mother. Mainly because of Alexa, I bought her one, because the kitchen
was too quiet. 2 weeks later She was cussing like a sailor. Get this mfn b off my d counter. I made the
mistake of asking why. She said because "she" keeps interjecting in her conversations on the phone
and in person. So it's been in a box for 5 years.

 

[InfiniteWarrior]

I was watching random standup comedians on youtube. The one that was on was
Russell Brand. He was doing a joke about trying to hook up with Mila Kunis. She
told him she was waiting for her boyfriend Mac, who in the joke turned out to be
Macaulay Culkin.

Instantly I paused the video. opened a blank page, and began to type, I swear all
I typed was "Did Mil" and the auto complete typed out "a kunis really date Macaulay Culkin".

I don't know if I should be amazed or un-nerved.

If I ever get my hands on that LLM, I am going to make a game titled "Talk to me" with a
splash screen of a mouth at a keyhole.

That's why Duck Duck Go gained a 30% market share seemingly overnight. Those were mostly people fleeing Google. Unfortunately, Duck Duck Go just provides an option to turn off integrated AI. If you want as much privacy as possible, you'll have to opt for the user unfriendly, open source options.

 

[Sapient6]

My sister-in-law came for a visit and was interested in my 3d Printer. I showed her how it worked and answered her questions and printed out a quick fidget toy for her so she could see it in action.

The next day she told me all the ads on sites she visited and all her search engines on her phone were filled with 3d printer related stuff. Her phone listened in on our conversation as I showed her my printer.

Although it listening in is certainly a possibility these days, ad responses have been doing this same trick for longer than we've had reliable technology to accomplish this by "listening".

There are simpler ways to accomplish this. For instance: google aggregates information about visible wifi networks and their locations, and your sister's phone is likely collecting wifi data and making it available to multiple installed apps. Google could have noted her extended colocation with known wifi, a location that presumably coincides with significant numbers of 3d printer searches. Maybe that sounds wild but it is already a known thing that two phones geographically colocated can result in receiving ads based on each others searches.

Or simpler. She's coming over because she is interested in 3d printers, and has done a few 3d printer searches herself.

 

[Roland]

Or simpler. She's coming over because she is interested in 3d printers, and has done a few 3d printer searches herself.

No. Not this one. She noticed the printer and asked about it. She wasn’t interested in 3d printing before she came over and didn’t know I had one. She told me afterward that she never looked up 3d printers before the visit nor did she think to intentionally look them up afterward.

I agree the phone could have acquired data through other means than just hearing our verbal conversation but those are just different forms of “listening”.

 

[Suxar]

Or simpler. She's coming over because she is interested in 3d printers, and has done a few 3d printer searches herself.

No. Google actually collects information through the microphone. It started offering me auto parts for my car after a colleague had an accident and we discussed the cost of repairing his car. I've never been interested in auto parts, and I don't own a car, and never have.