"Tech companies have long encouraged putting listening devices in homes and pockets..." reports the Washington Post. "But some are growing concerned that these devices are recording even when they're not supposed to — and they're taking their fears to the courts." (Alternate URLs here and he...
The technology of "wake word" is imprecise. More reason for self-hosted open source AI to be used.
Any of you ever suddenly get targeted advertisements for things you've never mentioned on the internet but you were just talking to someone about irl with your phone nearby? :thinking-about-it:
I block all manner of ads as much as possible wherever possible, narrowly allowing as few services to access as few things as is necessary, and uh... no, I don't actually have any stories about targeted advertising.
I use adblock as much as I possibly can, and I still get targeted ads on apps like instagram or when I send a YouTube video to someone's TV. There's no escape.
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Any of you ever suddenly get targeted advertisements for things you've never mentioned on the internet but you were just talking to someone about irl with your phone nearby? :thinking-about-it:
They insist that’s just “how good” the algorithm is at predicting your interests.
It can’t predict jack without inputs, dinguses, what are the fucking inputs? Why won’t you tell us?
I block all manner of ads as much as possible wherever possible, narrowly allowing as few services to access as few things as is necessary, and uh... no, I don't actually have any stories about targeted advertising.
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I use adblock as much as I possibly can, and I still get targeted ads on apps like instagram or when I send a YouTube video to someone's TV. There's no escape.