Simon Willison

Here's the ad sales pitch deck in question - my "this is a total scam" antenna were vibrating like crazy when I read it https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25051283-cmg-pitch-deck-on-voice-data-advertising-active-listening

Like 2 September at 17:28 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

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@simon
When I was in my 18-early 20's, I was a bit more chaos fuelled.

I worked out that a certain type of person, with a very specific tattoo, liked one of a few sentences about their tattoo.

I didn't know them. I didn't need to have listened to them. This tattoo, meant I could use a few lines.

All the "ads are listening" folks are saying is "How are the ads being targetted at me?".

3 September at 2:45 | Open on phpc.social

gabert

@simon
Yeah i was disillusioned when a video titled "they are listening to us after all" (or something to that accord) had only this pitfh deck to show for proof. It's a nothing sandwich as far as I am concerned until there is literal proof. Here the video in question https://youtu.be/2wjy-v7RXtg

3 September at 6:45 | Open on troet.cafe

nilesh

@simon Here is CMG's "denial" from last December.

Note the way this denial is phrased which still allows third-party apps listening & then sharing either the audio or the data inferred from it with CMG.

- They say "do not LISTEN" instead of "do no ANALYZE" conversations.
- "data set" is too broad and includes both raw audio and inferred data.
- "encrypted" is meaningless if CMG has the decryption keys.
- No explanation given for the article published on the official website.

5 September at 3:34 | Open on fosstodon.org