New Apple Study Shows LLMs Can Tell What You're Doing from Audio and Motion Data (opens in new tab)

Serves as a useful reminder that just because someone may not care if these companies collect this data now, they are storing it, sometimes indefinitely, and as technology advances, will be able to make more use of it than they were at the time you agreed to share it with them.

It's like all the ransomware gangs hoarding the encrypted data they stole, waiting for a quantum computing breakthrough to be able to decrypt it.

Not sure what to do about it, if anything, but the average person is severely under-equipped and undereducated to deal with this and protect themselves from the levels of surveillance that are soon to come.

Maybe I'm not understanding it, but as I get it, LLMs weren't really important: all they did was further interpreting outputs of a fronting audio-to-text classifier model.

You don't need them, but they are one way to do it that people know how to implement.

Identifying patterns is fairly amenable to analytic approaches, interpreting them, less so.

Do people not realize we're beyond 1984? In 1984 the tech wasn't always listening, rather it had the capacity to. Much of it was about how not knowing meant you'd act as if you were just in case. It was making reference to totalitarian states where you don't know if you can freely talk to your neighbor or if they'd turn you in, where people end up creating a double speak