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This would be such a cool thing, too bad it will only be used to scrape our data in order to sell us more ads. There are far too many technologies and concepts that have been ruined already due to bloody greed.
I love the idea. Having a sortable, searchable list of everything that hits my plate day to day would be an awesome boon, I simply don't want anyone else to have that data :(
Constant surveillance 😡
Audio memories 😍
And this is why I de-googled my phones. Fuck off with that surveillance bullshit.
If a song isn’t recognized, a short digital fingerprint may be sent to Google to securely search the cloud. Background conversations and audio are never sent to Google.
And, of course, Google will honor this and any other setting, as always, right? Right?
If you've got an android, go into your phone's dev options and try to turn off Google's location tracking service, or the one that tracks screen inputs, or the one that checks what wifi networks are around you.
They've been dishonourable from day 1 :C
As soon as they got away with "federated learning" (basically use your phone to train ai then just phone the results home rather than your data) 🤢 they knew they could just keep pushing and pushing and pushing until they have it all
Any soviet officials still alive must be going crazy: "wait, they actually pay to be surveilled???"
I'd trust talking revolution with a soviet commissar more than I'd ever trust a modern day company listening in on my everyday everything.
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I already have a voice recorder app on my phone, thanks.
But, but, it's so inconvenient to have to pull out your phone, find your app, turn it on, then turn it off again. So much easier if the dirty G just does it for you. I know I can't wait for this perfectly secure, privacy respecting feature, to invade my personal life
Honestly, I thought they already did that.
One of my motivations for becoming more privacy minded, was the amount of times a subject of conversation was delivered through an algorithm later.
It was creepy, talk about hose pipes> receive hosepipe content/ads.
I think so but now it's being marketed as a feature which is nauseating.
Yeah there's a "now playing" feature that will recognize music being played nearby, which I have found useful many times.
An AI note taker could actually be useful for some applications, like a meeting summary or play-by-play for a d&d session. It's just all the other stuff about AI that makes it shitty.
My creepiest experience was shopping at Lowe's and then getting recommendations on Amazon that night for drill bits and cabinet door handles. The thing is, I had purchased some drill bits at Lowe's so OK, but I had only stopped and looked at the cabinet door handles.
Your phone told advertisers you were located at Lowe's using GPS. Then your credit card company told advertisers you bought drill bits. If you looked up any cabinet door handles in the past, that data was given to advertisers too. They put all those pieces together to serve you more ads on drill bits and cabinet door handles.
A lot of stores keep track of which aisles you spend more time in, that information is then shared with their "partners" (ad networks). By the time you made it home, they had already shared that you bought bits and that your device spent a while looking at cabinet hardware.
I'm sure there's more than a little Baader-Meinhof happening. I did expand my privacy a bit; pihole, searxng, some other stuff and I notice it less now. Or I think I do, humans are notoriously bad at this.
I have such a hard time believing it's not a phenomenon. I know coincidences happen, but mannn
I've been advertised things that my wife has talked to me about that i otherwise have no interest in. I absolutely believe my phone is listening.
Your wife probably searched them online. The advertisers got your public IP address to display ads of what was searched. It's so subtle and people leave digital bread crumbs everywhere that it gives the appearance that the phone is listening to you.
Truth be told it's more processing power and work to stream and auto transcribe everyone's audio from their phone. It's effortless to just scoop up all search and purchase data.
Because they weren't already listening in?
No, they just now legally have to tell you (like when they had to start asking for your location instead of just having it.)
They don’t need to hide it anymore thanks to all surveillance legislations. So it can be marketed as feature.
Really looking forward for graphene firmware for Motorola phones.
How much long before Apple does this if they aren’t already?
I can remember my own coversations myself, thanks.
And what I feel I might both need and forget I'll write down Either on the phone or using pen and paper.
I believe that the idea is genuinely good; however if you think about all the data that leaves your phone and that can be used for tracking, spying and so on, it gets disgusting.
i think that a lot recently. so many great technologies that cannot be trusted in the hands of corporations. and sadly, people then reject technology instead of demanding a version in public domain.
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