A year ago I would have said it's impossible for ads companies to listen to everything you say and then base ads on it, because the sheer amount of data and compute necessary wouldn't be worth it, since 99% of what you say is useless garbage to them.
But today there are some pretty good local speech recognition models. I don't know if it's happening today, but I wouldn't be surprised if ad companies start figuring out ways to do local speech processing and only send the most relevant bits for full processing in the near future.
We'll have to depend on Apple and Google to protect us.
But today there are some pretty good local speech recognition models. I don't know if it's happening today, but I wouldn't be surprised if ad companies start figuring out ways to do local speech processing and only send the most relevant bits for full processing in the near future.
We'll have to depend on Apple and Google to protect us.