What I want to know is why when I’m talking to my wife in the car about buying new shoes do I get a YouTube ad that evening about new shoes, when I never got that kind of ad before.

Are our phones listening to us while we talk in the car, and then ads are generated from that?

I’d really like to know the answer to that question.

Edit: fixed typo, shoes, not shows.

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I highly doubt phones are always listening. Surely at some point by now there would be proof.

There’s no evidence of extra network activity ( your data would be through the roof ).

There’s no evidence of battery drain.

This is of course the phone OS we are talking about. Software like TikTok or Meta could / be when allowed to by the user.

I highly doubt phones are always listening.

But, they already are.

Some people like the option where they just say “Hey Google” (or whatever) and then the phone talks back to them, so they’re always listening so they can hear that initiation sequence. This old article from Vice describes what I’m speaking of.

Personally I’d like the ability to turn that feature off, so I have to explicitly enable the microphone to have Google listen to what I’m saying.

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Isn’t the activation phrase on a separate piece of hardware that’s not networked?

NGL I don’t the the guy with the anti ai blurb in all his comments is very knowledgeable about tech lol