I thought it was a mistake/typo. Those don’t instantly become words just because a reader can guess the meaning

Fun, sure, but not an experiment that would actually be meaningful.

The data from your phone’s microphone doesn’t magically appear in Google’s advertising servers. It would have to go through a lot of steps before it gets there, and one of the first steps is in your home (if you’re on WiFi). One can analyze the traffic/data that leaves their phone.

It’s good to be cautious, but worrying about your phone’s microphone is potentially like worrying about your windows while leaving your front door open.

Yet again, someone mistakes an anecdote for evidence. And evidence is also not the plural form of anecdote.

I’m sure we have people here who are tech-savvy enough to have actually examined the kinds of data that their phone is sharing.

If you have something like Google Home or Amazon Alexa, then yeah, those would be sending voice data back, and yeah, they could probably use it for advertising. But as far as I know, there is no evidence that phones are “always listening” and “always sending information back” when they’re idle.

Wait, Elon Musk’s ex-wife is now his mother-in-law?

Elon Musk’s dad groomed Elon Musk’s step-sister, if accurate, is more clear.

Elon Musk’s dad groomed his own step daughter…lol

I think you’re having a Principal Skinner meme moment here…

Could it be me who wrote a comment that was slightly unclear?

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No, it’s couple dozen or so other commenters who are wrong.

Lmao…if you don’t see how going “Hey it’s not actually a crime!” sounds like defending them, I can’t help you.

And “internet tough guy”? Where is that even coming from? Lol

I also think the issue was with your comment. It could’ve been written a bit more clearly

Are you defending the people who used the AI bots as described?

instead of knowing someone in the neighborhood is researching how to get away with murder.

…how would I know that?

I agree on the point of security theatre. I think the tracking stuff provides more actual useful information, but I also imagine it’s more for reactionary investigations rather than pre-emptive protections.

I could be wrong, though.

I’d call it both. Hassling people for taking sunscreen or water onboard is probably mostly theatre. All of the tracking and scanning is probably what they actually use to find any naughty people.

I thought they were mostly bots and alts

It’s a lot easier to access ChatGPT than it is to access a flying car

That was the one action I took on Twitter after creating an account before my account got banned.

I needed to create an account to check a local source for updates. So I did. I also decided to look around on Twitter to see what I was “missing”. Saw a bunch of Musk stuff and instantly knew I didn’t want to see any of it. So I blocked him.

In a few weeks, when I clicked a Twitter link, it said my account had been banned for suspicious activity. It had a secure password and this was its second log-in ever (no posts, comments, reactions, etc).

The post title was an entire thought in the form of a question. It invited people to come and share their opinions.

Not to mention that in many clients, the title is presented first before the post body. So someone could come up with their answer after reading everything initially presented to them about this post.

Also, skimming is a useful thing that people do, lol

Upvoted for “Panda’s box”…lmao!

It is kind of misleading to leave it out of the title and hide it in the middle of the post. “Besides AI” could’ve easily fit in the post title.

Your comment reminded me of the time I tried to connect my new phone number to my accounts, but had trouble with Amazon and AirBnB because the last guy with the number forgot to update his accounts.

Amazon told me it’d have to delete the old account before allowing me to connect my new number.

That’s not even the worst one though.

AirBnB gave me no other option than to log in to the other guy’s account through nothing but the SMS recovery code (which came to my phone since I have his old number now), starting the account recovery process from within his account, and then removing the phone number from his account.

After logging out (and closing the private browsing window and turning off the VPN), I was then able to link the phone number to my account. (And yes, I tried everything else – from within my account, it told me “Sorry, this number is linked to another account”)

Never had a problem with AirBnB or the new phone number since then though!

I think you’re missing the key part of the problem. It isn’t the AI that’s the issue.

The problem is that he was being paid for how many listeners his AI songs got. But he used bots to “listen” to the songs. Nobody actually listened to his AI music.

The flaw in the system was that they couldn’t detect his bots. (And the bots are not AI)