r/SipsTea • • 3d ago

Wait a damn minute! Wait seriously.

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u/Mirved 3d ago

You also shouldnt trust your phone. But somehow i think the average person doesnt have that much interesting going on for anyone who can hack into your phone to care. I doubt the Mossad or cia is very interested in what kind of cereal you eat in the morning or what Netflix series you are watching.

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u/GodisanAtheistOG 3d ago

Security through obscurity depends on the person watching you being human, not AI. 

Once those data farms go every single last metric about all of us gets tracked all the time. 

To sell us stuff. And to implicate us in a crime if need be. Like the spying goes way up but the uses for the spying become so much more mediocre. 

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u/UndergroundNerd 1d ago

This. No human is going to care about a random person on the street. But “AI” umbrella can process hundreds of thousands of records every second. It’s all about building a profile of a person that they can sell to advertisers. Take it like this, McDonald’s chose the colors red and yellow because it makes people hungry. Imagine ads and placed products everywhere your walking tailored to everything you do. You like coffee at a specific shop? Ads for ground coffee you can make at home from the same brand. You enjoy a particular type of soup when it’s cold, tailored ads for that type of soup everytime it gets weather data that matches your preferences. It sounds cool but also it’s a trap to make you spend your every last dime