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Given the incredibly poor search results I get from Google Assistant I find the idea that the old Samsung phone is listening to my every word is plausible but s
by smackeyacky 5y ago
Given the incredibly poor search results I get from Google Assistant I find the idea that the old Samsung phone is listening to my every word is plausible but should be extremely ineffective since when I am deliberately using it, it sucks.
However, if I am half way through a movie and I want to find some detail on it, it inevitably shows up within the first few search results whether I'm watching it on DVD, a blu-ray or off a streaming service or broadcast TV. The streaming service I can understand, Blu-ray player could be talking to something I guess, the other two are harder to explain since I use an old DVD player that has no networking facility.
- psadri 5y agoMaybe it’s just playing dumb?
- smackeyacky 5y agoHa. Voice recognition does seem to induce a large amount of anthropomorphism.
- eightysixfour 5y agoIs your TV internet connected? Some have content fingerprinting technology to determine what you're watching shares that back to the ad networks.
- smackeyacky 5y agoNo, its an ancient panasonic with no network connection either. The other thing I didn't count was that google probably know I search for movie information regularly and bias the search results accordingly, which is more plausible than it knowing what movie I am watching by listening to it. But maybe they have something like that "what am i listening to" feature that used to be in google play music. I guess we unintionally might be triggering a pile of information side channels without the voice recognition spying being foremost.