The microphone trust aspect in the article seems like a red herring distracting from what could be a clearer point.
Facebook literally takes your data from their apps and internet, tracks your behavior on the internet, and feeds this data into models of you. These models are so accurate they can sometimes basically predict what you're thinking. Hence the layman jumping to the conclusion that they must be spying though the mic.
A LLM company like OpenAI, and their partners, employs almost literally this exact model. Grabs data from whatever sources to improve their models, to increase the likelihood you'll keep clicking where they want you to click, to monetize you.
> Hence the layman jumping to the conclusion that they must be spying though the mic.
Right, and in a larger sense, the laymen aren't exactly wrong. They're technically wrong about the mechanism, but they're exactly right about the extreme intrusion into their private lives. That the intrusion comes in the form of accurate models rather than the microphone is just a technical detail. The end effect is the same.
> Facebook literally takes your data from their apps and internet, tracks your behavior on the internet, and feeds this data into models of you. These models are so accurate they can sometimes basically predict what you're thinking. Hence the layman jumping to the conclusion that they must be spying though the mic.
and all of this just to show me shitty ads for online games that I will never, ever, EVER play, college-themed dating services I'm not going to use, yoga shit, and money remittance services. I live near a big university, so I'm guessing it's simply by IP.
occasionally get ads for Lexus or Jags tho. that's nice.
Facebook literally takes your data from their apps and internet, tracks your behavior on the internet, and feeds this data into models of you. These models are so accurate they can sometimes basically predict what you're thinking. Hence the layman jumping to the conclusion that they must be spying though the mic.
A LLM company like OpenAI, and their partners, employs almost literally this exact model. Grabs data from whatever sources to improve their models, to increase the likelihood you'll keep clicking where they want you to click, to monetize you.