“What would it mean for your business if you could target potential clients who are actively discussing their need for your services in their day-to-day conversations? No, it's not a Black Mirror episode—it's Voice Data, and CMG has the capabilities to use it to your business advantage.”
I would assume that you are right, considering how much gargage you collect if listening.
Now imagine recording those who have not given consent, or the device saving full scripts of movies.
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Anecdotally, the odds are near zero that my wife and I can talk once about maybe buying some obscure thing like electric blinds and suddenly targetted ads for them somehow pop up on our devices.
This happens a lot.
I think you’re being naive if you believe they don’t locally distill our discussions into key words and phrases and transmit those.
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That in itself is concerning. Everyone is arguing that no company would invest resources to voice to text everything. But Google does it in YouTube.
What a hilarious oversight with that experiment lol! He must have felt stupid when it was pointed out to him.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
genuine controlled experiment to determine whether Google was listening to him through his microphone
When this was pointed out to him he retracted his statements
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Confirmation bias — people unconsciously prefer remembering things supporting their beliefs.
You are assuming he had the belief before the events when it could be the events creating the belief.