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How much proof is there that smart tvs and phones listen to you? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 days ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Like, we all know they're listening , but can we provide proof?

My friend was complaining about all the new super surveillance that will be government required in cars after 2027, and I said to him dude you have a stock android, you use every AI slop feature, you use a smart TV on your unsecured network, and uses x every day. They have everything they could possibly need on him. Oh and he posts questionable things to fb daily under his real name.

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[–] decended_being@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I worry that you're making AI out as the good option, but really they are both awful, AI is simply less mature. There hasn't yet been time to inject ads into generated responses (but it's coming), and the users don't yet feel the surveillance of each of their prompts.

And are you saying users don't get any functionality from their smartphones? I find my smartphone more helpful than an LLM that spits out statistically likely responses while destroying our water, air, and electricity prices; stealing intellectual property from small artists who can't fight back; and removing the humanity in peoples' interactions.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

AI capacity isn’t being built to serve users. It’s being used to profile their histories, to unmask their anonymity online so their profiles can be made more accurate.

Why do you think they want everything stored in the cloud? For convenience?

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

No, I am not a AI fanboy. I just compared bad to worse.

Of course users get something from their smartphones, but not from the spyware on it. The spyware is not an integral function of a smartphone.