Nice YouTube post:

Over 1 million likes in 2 hours

I take that as strong evidence that somewhere in the phone system a computer is analyzing the voices and feeding topic data at least back to YouTube. My wife and I were just on a family conference call this noon, discussing upcoming and recent cataract surgeries. We finished the call and ten minutes later my initial YouTube screen included that video. I'm not saying the video was posted because of our call, because that was before we started talking. I'm just saying YouTube's algorithm for which videos it presents to you are affected by your phone calls. This has happened about five times in the last year.

Which is not such a bad thing: We are not gangsters planning our next heist, and it would be nice if NSA did monitor voice traffic for bad stuff.

Last edited by pondering_it_all; 01/29/23 01:11 AM. Reason: Adding commentary
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