You Are Being Watched.

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[liamholcroft]

"nothing to hide = nothing to fear" Tell me, if you were to be stalked physically 24/7, even if you knew you were in no harm, you're just being watched, how would you feel?

[bbasque]

This made me incredibly uncomfterble, good job.

[JoeAQuinn]

“You are being watched” 10 seconds into the video my local library pops up.

[DragonSlayer-ytti]

My personal ads are so off point, they just don’t understand that I’m dead broke and don’t give a shit about their products

[John-hzxy]

A: "nothing to hide = nothing to fear"
B: "show me your messages and pictures."
A: "uhhh no."
B: "exactly."

[ThisIsArty]

this is cool and all but why does the goddamn algorithm still think im a middle aged woman with menstruation issues and medical issues

[MrCMPUTR]

Just a nitpik: Cookies aren't actually code as in something like javascript. Cookies are literally just a string of data. It's essentially a fingerprint that can be reported back to a company whenever your computer interacts with their servers. Most often it's in the form of something like an iframe or script tag that gets embedded into other websites. When you visit that website, your browser is connecting in the background to the company who put the cookie there. The cookie itself isn't doing anything.

[amogusimposta]

Look like i am stupid i only get ads about terrible mobile games

[KentuckyFriedChildren]

As Tom Scott put it:

"Nothing to hide only works if the folks in power share the values of you and the folks you know, *entirely, * and *always* will"

[maxxbmd]

The funny thing about the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument is that it ignores the idea that the things you don't need to hide today could be things you'll need to hide later.

If something normal you did suddenly became illegal, you certainly wouldn't want that information out in the open, would you?

[serbkebab]

It’s funny when Redditors think they’re anonymous. All your cringy comments will be exposed one day. Remember, all your upvotes are worth precisely $0.00.

[manasmahanand]

I'm a software developer. Sorry but a lot of information here is misleading.

1. Cookies aren't bits of code, they are bits of data that can be stored, and edited, and viewed by any website.
2. AI doesn't create their own language, they have training models, and neural networks - which are modelled "inspired" by the human brain. Which is why they are called neural networks. These neural networks are trained multiple times over (which is probably in the millions for these companies) with stupid - bytes of data. They behave the same way a human mind works, just a million times less complex. And we do know how it works, just that we don't bother to check how it makes each and every decision.

There are many more inaccuracies in this video, too lazy to type them, but in general what you say is right - companies track you way more than you realise. But it's only for advertising, it is scary as governments can get access to it if they really wanted, which can turn out to be really bad...

[__-cxlg]

Good video! Just want to clear something up. At 4:12 you say that the AIs "code themselves their programming language that they made up". As far as I'm aware, this isn't really an accurate way to describe what's going on. Neural networks are just a bunch of matrix-vector multiplications. If personalized ads use neural networks (and I'm not sure if they do?) the input vector (which contains all quantifiable input that they can get directly, like your posts or previous clicks or anything else you tell them) is then multiplied by the matrices to get the output (e.g. it's guess for how likely you are to click on a particular ad). At first it'll be random and the guesses won't be close to accurate, but the coders program it so that it uses calculus on the training data to alter the matrix elements until it find the values that maximize, or at least locally maximize, the accuracy of the guesses; if you know much about multivariable calculus you should be able to picture how this works.

So the code itself is written by humans, humans specify the goal in code, humans write the code that the AI runs to get better, and humans understand in principle why it makes sense that some sets of matrix values will get you good results. The part that nobody understands is _why, _ in human-level abstracted terms, a given trained set of matrices works so well. No human could ever have come closer to guessing the right matrices for a given goal, and nobody knows how to turn the matrices back into high-level abstracted English terms that humans can understand. This also means that it's hard to tell when it will go wrong, if it will go wrong, and how it will go wrong.

[eandfriends]

Since they log everything, there should be a tool to that feeds them random data which ends up polluting their data profile about you. For example, maybe a software on computer that does random key phrase searches or visit random websites with their trackers in it when youre off the computer. That may confuse the identity of you in their data base.

[LordSplynter]

"You are being watched"
*I turn around
*my cat looks at me
"Well you are not wrong"

[cmwhte]

Really disappointed that you left out the part about what to do about all of this. You took a few liberties sensationalizing the information you presented, winding up the audience (clearly successfully based on the comments), and then tell people to click on a blog post if they wants solutions? You know they're not going to, right? They're going to click on the next video and all most are going to remember of this is that accepting cookies will tell a scary AI all their secrets. Most of the advice in your article is good* and would have been good to include and explain in greater detail in this video.
* Putting a privacy article behind a bitly link is quite an interesting choice, though.

[certifiedschizophrenic]

I miss when I was a kid and the internet was more like how the tv was treated, not your life

[Xemnasty]

"There are things online that you can discover..."
*Shows lots of pictures including Chris-chan*
Me: and some you wish you could forget.

[nunocampea]

they are the ones who get traumatised not me

[DynerusHD]

The Social Dilemma is a pretty good watch if you want to know more about this subject