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I've heard this anecdote from so many people in so many different contexts that I'm beginning to get suspicious about the common "benign" explanations like grap
by gigel82 4y ago
I've heard this anecdote from so many people in so many different contexts that I'm beginning to get suspicious about the common "benign" explanations like graphs of friends, their interests, location tracking, etc.
Do we an in-depth analysis done somewhere that proves / disproves the theory of an actual microphone / STT being used either in Android / iOS itself or by a running app?
- brokensegue 4y agoThere's also the benign explanation of "coincidence".
- ghostpepper 4y agoYep. How many people talked about a song they don't like, then signed into youtube and saw... not that song, so they didn't post about it.
- the_snooze 4y ago>Do we an in-depth analysis done somewhere that proves / disproves the theory of an actual microphone / STT being used either in Android / iOS itself or by a running app? For mobile, actual voice processing (i.e., not just hotword detection) would have some kind of telltale higher-than-baseline resource consumption. Whether CPU, disk, memory, battery, or network. Processing voice has to happen somewhere, and it takes resources to either do it on-phone or ship it off elsewhere (either immediately or later).
- jackson1442 4y agoI think the friend graph explains most of these away, along with coincidences. If your Spotify friends listen to a specific song, it kinda makes sense for them to recommend it to you as well. They may have also given their friend "the aux" at some point which would train the algorithm on their music, so it's just bringing those songs back up (this one happens to me _a lot_)