I thought this was pretty creepy!

[bif]

My wife and I were watching our 3-year old grandson today. His communication skills are pretty good, but there are times when it's difficult to understand why he's saying. I jokingly said, "They should have a Google Translate app that translates Kidspeak to Adultspeak. A few minutes later I turned on my iPhone and the Google Translate app was open. Coincidence? I think not. My wife says that Siri is always listening unless you turn her off.

[Srkdqltr]

1. THats really creepy.

[surrealAmerican]

2. Your wife is right.

Siri is eavesdropping - it was designed to do that.

[bif]

4. And it's an iPhone 6!

I'm sure the newer phones are way more sophisticated.

[Arne]

3. Stephan King's next novel, "SIRI" .

[keithbvadu2]

5. I posted a picture here on DU. Within 15 seconds, I was seeing ads for that product.

[a kennedy]

11. I know.....just looking at something on Facebook, a bazillion ads of stuff related to what I looked at

show up immediately after I checked something out.

[2naSalit]

6. Oh...

It's not just SIRI. They are listening to us when we have conversations at any time, don't have to be on the phone or even have it in your hand. It's really creepy. I watch what I say when I'm anywhere near a phone the has such apps.

[ms liberty]

7. They're all listening. They've been listening for years now.

[LudwigPastorius]

8. Listening...and you are being watched.

[a kennedy]

12. Loved that show.......

[LudwigPastorius]

13. I never watched it when it was on the air.

But, I've been streaming it lately. Pretty cool that it starts out like a procedural, story-of-the-week kind of show, but gets into more of a sci-fi vibe later on. And, the subject matter of super intelligent AIs couldn't be more timely.

Also, I'll watch Michael Emerson in just about anything. He's very good.

[AllaN01Bear]

9. bif et al.

when i was a young boy , my mom was a kindergarten of 27 years at glendora ca unified .
i had a small "job" review cartooons for mom so that she could understand what the kids were talking about. some were bad in my humble opinion.

[Nittersing]

10. When Alexa started talking to me un-pompted

I decided to unplug it.

It was actually pretty handy for making shopping lists... but it initiating "conversations" was too annoying.