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They're listening: this is truly uncanny. I've talked about it occasionally on the blog. I could give examples day in and day out but it would suggest that I'm paranoid, and, of course, I'm not. I love technology and I have no trouble with the thought -- and it's more than a thought -- that Alexa is listening to me 24/7. We have an Amazon Echo (or whatever they're called now) in each of our rooms. We don't ask Alexa many questions but she is always there when we need her.
On the other hand, unless we turn that particular function off, Alexa is always listening to us.
Tonight, I was interested in listening to some music; my wife was not, so I put the headphones and opened the YouTube app.
Wow. There were four YouTube suggestions at the top, followed by a number of additional suggestions. The top four suggestions were separated by a solid line from the additional suggestions.
Of the four top YouTube suggestions, three of them were no surprise.
The first was one I listen to almost every day.
The next two were of Sina-Drums -- someone whom I used to listened to a year ago (or perhaps longer) and then quit listening to her. But last night I was curious if Sina was still around, and so I searched for some YouTube videos of the "new" Sina.
Today, no surprise, two of the top four YouTube suggestions were for the new Sina, or "Sina-Drums.
Now, it gets creepy or spooky. Except I think it's amazing. The fourth suggestion was for a 49-minute documentary of Albert Einstein. To the best of my knowledge, in my thirty (?) years of listening to / watching YouTube videos, I have never, never, never watched or even searched for a YouTube video on physics, much less, specifically, Albert Einstein.
So, there it was. One of the top four YouTube recommendations was for a 49-minute document of Albert Einstein. What's going on? That clearly was not "an accident."
So, the dot-to-dot connection? Earlier this afternoon I posted a blog on the year 1905. I was looking up some obscure Supreme Court ruling in 1905 -- that's a story in itself.
Having finished the Supreme Court case, I was curious. What would AI say about "1905" -- I knew that was the "miracle year" for Albert Einstein and I was curious how AI would cover it.
And I posted that, also, see the link above.
Alphabet (Google) owns YouTube, and my blog is hosted by Alphabet (Google). And there's the connection.
So, no it has nothing to with Alexa and Amazon but ...
So, Alphabet (Google) AI (Gemini) is tracking across all its websites, and probably all websites, and connected my brief mention of 1905 on my obscure Bakken blog and then inserted a link on YouTube regarding Albert Einstein that AI thought might interest me.
Scary? Creepy? Not for me. I love it. I also know Gemini will send me targeted ads. Thirty years ago, I used to get ads all the time for a male medication I won't mention here. Some years ago, I got an ad for that medication for the last time and haven't seen an ad for it since. I prefer targeted ads.
Just for the fun of it, I'm going to type in a new book that just came out [The Annotated Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzerald, edited by James L. W. West III, c. 2025] to see if I get targeted ads for this book. LOL.
Nope, I never get ads for books, so I will post "Mazda CX-50" and see if I start getting targeted ads for the Mazda CX-50.
Oh, that reminds me, our oldER granddaughter is in the market for a Subaru.
By the way, if interested, YouTube has a video of Brigitte Bardot with scenes from your movies, including some full nude scenes of Ms Bardot from one (or two or three?) of her movies.
Which obviously leads to the next question? Was Ms Bardot ever featured in Playboy. It seems I recall she was.
AI: Playboy often included images of Bardot typically from existing photo shoots or film stills ... but [Brigitte Bardot] never posed specifically for Playboy in an official or exclusive shoot.
So, there you have it. Ten minutes of your life you will never get back.
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