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Does anyone really think that this is going to tip any scales in terms of knowledge about you? We got a new dog a few days ago. I immediately -- almost instant
by sillysaurusx 5y ago
Does anyone really think that this is going to tip any scales in terms of knowledge about you?
We got a new dog a few days ago. I immediately -- almost instantly -- noticed that tiktok started showing me new-dog videos. Things like "How to kennel train your dog" and so on.
I was very confused, and reasoned that the most likely explanation was that I had subconsciously been liking dog videos in our run-up to getting a puppy. But then it occurred to me that it's quite realistic to think an ML model got me: I'm logged into tiktok via Google as myself; there's certainly data sharing agreements in place; my purchasing habits are no doubt tracked by multiple vectors; and I know from experience that ML can infer some surprising things from sparse data.
My point is, in an era when algorithms know the instant you get a new puppy, or the month you get pregnant, or the week you get fired, or have an extremely accurate picture of just how much disposable income you have...
... are you really going to care about sharing whether you feel like shit? That's the hill we pick? :)
- sva_ 5y ago> I was very confused, and reasoned that the most likely explanation was that I had subconsciously been liking dog videos in our run-up to getting a puppy. But then it occurred to me that it's quite realistic to think an ML model got me: I'm logged into tiktok via Google as myself; there's certainly data sharing agreements in place; my purchasing habits are no doubt tracked by multiple vectors; and I know from experience that ML can infer some surprising things from sparse data. I think the answer is probably more mundane: someone an edge away from you on their social graph looked at dog videos, and they correlated it based on that.