Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 21 hours agoHow would it even work? You would need to transmit and process mind boggling levels of data, in almost real time according to some of these stories.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Local speech to text has been easy to do for at least a decade and then you’re just firing off a text file to HQ to add keywords to a user file. These days an AI will likely parse the text to find recommendable products, ten years ago you’d have just had a gigantic list of all your partners’ brand names and desired key trigger phrases in a database and run the conversation text against the database and look for matches. Super easy to accomplish. Updating someone’s ad preferences 15-30 minutes after they talk about a product may as well be considered real time.