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by zepto 2909 days ago
I understand what you are saying, but it’s neither accurate nor reasonable.

For one thing, it is false to say ‘upload said conversation’. It’s true that a false positive can lead to a sound sample being uploaded to Siri.

That is not uploading a conversation. Saying a conversation is being uploaded is clearly mischaracterizing what is happening. Why exaggerate from a sound sample into a conversation, which is a quite different concept unless your goal is to mislead?

Separately, the uploading of short, misidentified sound samples does not constitute ‘Apple is listening to you’. This is also clear.

In any public space, people around you may briefly give you some attention if you say their name, even if you happen to be referring to someone else with the same name.

Only paranoid people construe this to mean that everyone is listening to them all the time.

To accept your reasoning that ‘Apple is listening to you’, we must also conclude that if you are in public, ‘everyone around you is listening to you’, rather than the regular understanding which is that people pay attention to you when you say something that is relevant to them.

You can decide for yourself what counts as 'Apple Listening to you', but this particular reasoning seems a lot like paranoia rather than what most people understand 'listening' to mean.

If you say 'Apple is listening to you' based on exaggeration and uncommon definitions, unless you explain what these are, most people, if that believe you, will interpret this using the common understanding and be misinformed.

Saying 'Apple is listening to you' is therefore misinformation.