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YouTube user demonstrating how Facebook listens to conversations to serve ads
SeventhSandwich:
I'm split on this. For one, it is 100% possible that Facebook is using machine learning to scan your conversations for keywords and use them to serve you advertising. This is completely within the bounds of modern artificial intelligence.
But also, on the internet, you are served thousands of ads per day, and most of them you will completely ignore. If you talk about something before going on Facebook, it's fresh in your mind, and you're more likely to recognize when a similar ad pops up. This is known as observational selection bias.
Another thing to consider is that your friend who was talking about the new movie/TV show probably liked it on Facebook or searched it on Google. Facebook almost certainly uses your friends' interests to tailor the ads you receive. This is still somewhat Orwellian but far less disturbing than Facebook/Alphabet listening to your private conversations over mic.
Fire Vine:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on October 29, 2017, 05:57:18 PM --- This is still somewhat Orwellian but far less disturbing than Facebook/Alphabet listening to your private conversations over mic.
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they actually loving do this?!?!??!!?
Rockinboy2000:
cant wait... Zuckerberg 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmYzjjSfT8s
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Fire Vine on October 29, 2017, 06:01:07 PM ---they actually loving do this?!?!??!!?
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I mean, it's not a person manually looking at your friends' interests and deciding what kinds of ads Fire Vine will get on Facebook. It's more like Facebook receives a big data matrix of general keywords that your friends search up, and that gets tossed into a giant maze of linear algebra that will allegedly give them a clearer idea of what kinds of ads you will receive.
Facebook already tracks everything you search or view on the website. It's not a coincidence that back when I was in high school, the girls I was crushing on the hardest would show up first on my news feed/messenger.
Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: Fire Vine on October 29, 2017, 06:01:07 PM ---they actually loving do this?!?!??!!?
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Facebook definitely does, that's literally what the video is showing. What the app likely does is use speech-to-text, pick out keywords from your conversations as plain text and send them back to Facebook so you can get targeted ads for it. Completely unacceptable.
But i've never heard anything about google doing this.