Daemon Silverstein

@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone @Bags@piefed.social

I don’t watch anime, I browse on Linux, but I often use Google.

I pulled up Chrome on my desktop (connected to the same account from Android) and typed in “Satellite”. None of the suggestions involved “girl and milk cow”:

- Satellite Map
- Satellite Images
- Satellite Imagery
- Satellite Tracker
- Satellite Weather
- Satellite Internet
- Satellite [a product from a billionaire that I refuse to mention]
- Satellite Phone

I sometimes access NASA and satellite imagery (SOHO and LASCO), hence the “Satellite imagery” suggestions. I also access cartography quite frequently, hence the “Satellite map”. Anime is such a very absent thing from my personal interests (and Google, of course, knows this), hence the absence of anime suggestions.

Yes, phones listen, electronic devices can be made to listen, and it have been happening before LLMs came into being, “ECHELON” (from the 60s) is worthy mentioning. Even the Scunthorpe Problem isn’t new: saying “bomb” on a landline phone used to trigger automatic recording of the calls for “national security purposes” (even though the mentioned “bomb” was some kind of gossiping between two friends). AI just made it “easier” as electronic devices have lots of power, thus decentralizing part of the data processing from their servers.

And while I may sound like some tinfoil hat (I indeed was at some point of my existence) I don’t say this with legitimate concern: I simply don’t care anymore (at least, not fully), sometimes I even dare to say… explicitly “concerning” things… near “my” phone, and I don’t care… Because it already knows who I am anyways.