One of my weirder hobbies is trying to convince people that the idea that companies are listening to you through your phone’s microphone and serving you targeted ads is a …

Not my title! I do think we are being listened to. And location tracked. And it’s being passed on to advertisers. Is it apple though? Probably not is my take away from this article, but I don’t trust plenty of others, and apple still does

  • Flipper@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    too much work for today’s tech

    All the assistants listen all the time for their codeword. The new pixel phone show you a list of songs played around them and more. It is already happening all the time in the background.

    • serenissi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      That’s done locally. You can try training wake word models for any open assistant and see how much computing power it needs for even simple phrase.