Camdat [none/use name]

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Cake day: November 14th, 2021

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  • This is maybe my biggest pet peeve. These companies are not listening to you in any meaningful way.

    You can trivially confirm this by hooking up your home network to Wireshark and filtering packets.

    Other reasons:

    1. They can get all of this information elsewhere: searches, ad pixels, location capturing etc.
    2. Processing audio data is basically impossible on-device in a useful way, and the network infrastructure to support mass transcriptions on the cloud would be on the order of billions.
    3. It would be a massive endeavor to cover up the millions of hours of audio data that would need to be analyzed by the lowest paid and most unhappy workers in the industry (content labelers and moderators)

    Now I’m sure this is some marketers wet dream, but the logistical and PR nightmare this would create dissuades all but the dumbest ad agencies. This is mostly just terrible tech journalism.