Are our phones, computers, and TVs secretly monitoring us with AI?

[Amy10223]

I was watching a Youtube video where an AI narrator was talking about the qualities of a certain city. They were talking about the air pollution. I got distracted and began looking at something else on the same page , when I heard the voice say, "blah blah blah... a retired teacher from Ohio said the air was so bad she had to..." What? When I went back to replay that same portion of the video, rewinding a bit, there was no mention whatsoever of what I had heard with my own ears. As if it were trying to make me come back to pay attention to the video. So--is AI now able to spy on us?

I have noticed that if I am online looking for anything--my TV commercial breaks will show whatever it was that I was looking at. But that video was almost scary. That was nuts.

[mstbooblover]

It seems rather obvious to me that all those connected devices are more or less secretely monitored in some way, most probably with AI considering its advanced development.

My advice would be to plainly avoid keeping at least phones and computers online. When you do not need them, just shut them down, or cut off the Internet connection, and don't forget to erase regularly all history and cookies. No need nevertheless to be paranoïd, because we will all have to learn and live with that phenomenon.

[Nikki1989]

It is nothing new. You have been getting spied on for many years. AI just made it even easier for them to track you.

[Amy10223]

Evidently, they have for years. When my cousin was going for a position in NJ for assistant to the state governor, he told us that the people who interviewed him knew all about his family, their ages, where they worked, and so on. That was in the late 70's.

[Friendlybro79]

Yes this has been a thing for a very long time. Not new at all. You are prob just noticing it. When you search anything it will use that to advertise to you for one example. That's part of the terms and agreement we all acknowledge and agree to when we use android, apple os systems. It's those things when you activate a new phone or download an app or use their browser for the first time. It asks you to agree to things. That's what allows them. It's data that we consent to but don't realize.

[llorando]

It really depends. Smartphones with Android or iOS, yes, dumb phone or smartphone running a custom OS no. Smart TV, yes, non smart TV no. Computers running Windows or MacOS yes, computers running Linux, mostly no. I have Linux installed on all of my computers and only use windows when playing games, so AI spying on me via my computers is mostly a non issue for me.

[ohsheeT]

If they are a smart TV smartphone smart computer yes they have those options built into them
There are things you can do to protect yourself a little bit but I mean our government already has all the information they want on this but they will keep going and going and going to get more and more and more that's how paranoid they are and then there's other types of businesses that do it

[Spencer10]

Of course they are... look how easy it is for law enforcement to use this technology when investigating crimes or searching for victims. Privacy is largely an illusion now.

[Chelsea86]

Probably. I’m waiting for the day they put a chip into our brains.

[loveslongnails]

100%. You have to take precautions to shut those services down, and even then, some of them automatically restart after a while. Be vigilant.

[douride2]

I am sure AI has been keeping track of & spying on us for years now.

[msc545]

I hope not, because whoever has to listen to what they uncover is going to be bored out of their mind.

[Iron_Man]

I hope not I don’t want robots anywhere around me

[Amy10223]

If you are here, they already are.

[Iron_Man]

Get them out of my life

[canamlusciouslad73]

Highly likely.

[Sevenpointfive]

yes, but not just by AI.

[Bklynbadboy12]

Yes they are definitely monitoring you

[krin_m]

I believe, not secretly, but quite openly.

[AgentG111]

Yes.