Wahrscheinlich wird es dafür Kritik geben, aber ich kann es nicht wegerklären!
Ich liege heute Morgen im Bett und versuche aufzustehen. Ich liege einfach da und schaue auf meinen Blissy-Seidenkissenbezug und denke darüber nach, wie ich ihn heute wechseln muss.
Schneller Vorlauf, um die Sachen der Kinder für die Schule vorzubereiten. Ich muss jeden Tag etwas in ihrem Rucksack signieren. Normalerweise finde ich im Haus einen Stift, aber dieses Mal entdeckte ich einen einzelnen Buntstift am Boden ihres Rucksacks. Ich habe es verwendet und es war sehr dick, wenn man so will. Also fragte ich mich: „Ist das ein Eyeliner???“ Habe mir die Schrift darauf angeschaut. Es stellte sich heraus, dass es nur ein Buntstift war und die Farbe Maulbeere war. Ich denke immer noch darüber nach, dass das ein Farbname ist, den eine Make-up-Linie verwenden würde.
Schneller Vorlauf: Die Kinder gehen zur Schule und ich checke meine E-Mails auf der Couch. Ich schaue mir eine Dankes-E-Mail vom PTO der Schule an. Es ist eine dieser E-Mails mit personalisierter Werbung am Ende. Einer ist für Blissy und der andere ist eine Werbung für Mulberry Eyeliner 😵
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BTW this happened a few months back but mods kept taking it down for some reason. I think about this often so I wanted to try to post again for feedback
I’ve had a few instances like this. I believe you.
100% reading your mind happens to me all the time. The newest thing happening to my husband is every time he puts fries in the oven a timer for ten min will automatically appear on his phone. & We don’t have the slightest clue how or why.
The phone definitely listens
THIS. As crazy as it sounds, seems to be a thing. I’m not convinced it’s actually reading our minds, but I’m not certain it’s not. I hope it’s AI based inference (inferring what we are thinking from our reaction to certain content). But in some of my observations inference doesn’t explain it. I’ve watched this improve over the last year, to the point now, where after having a protected thought (no mention out loud or computer searching whatsoover), I get extremely targeted videos and ads to that exact topic. This is repeatable. Multiple platforms, but It’s most evident on youtube shorts. I hope they are not able to truly read our thoughts using the wifi router.
Remember that many of the apps and services you use daily ( including reddit) not only track but note cookies, behaviors, usage and listen to combine information about everything you interact with around you. It puts together a profile about your interest, environment, work and media you consume and can make pretty accurate assumptions about you and show you ads according to those assumptions.
Its way less mindready and much more of a calculation but absolutely invasive and noted in the T&C of usage
This has been happening to me more and more!
This has happened to me before
Mulberry is and has been a colored pencil color for a very long time and has also been used in makeup lines before. The pillow cases could very easily be a targeted ad due to the fact they know you will purchase them as you clearly have in the past. And yes, even if you didnt buy them online, if your card is attached to anything online your debit/credit card company 100% sells the data on what you purchase and that is why you will get targeted ads.
Also when you see something and focus in on it, you wil find these coincidences in life often because your mind is more receptive to it. Youve quite possibly seen that ad multiple times but because you had an experience involving those things very recently it comes to your mind quicker.
Targeted ads are not a conspiracy, they arent reading your minds, they are reading the data that you yourself have provided them through purchases, web searches, and other various data that we all sign away on daily basises. They count on you not reading the things you sign up for and then selling your data to various other companies. The amount of people who fail to read the things they agree to is wild.
So ads work on probability clustering. I think it probably uses some sort of simulated combination of our location, what apps and websites our eyes hover over or have open, (our phones are definitely tracking where our eyes are on the screen). With a combination of all our data points it seems AI can work through a sort of process of elimination to suggest to us the most relevant possible advertisement. It sort of reminds of that game from the 2000’s that was a little colored see through circle ‘20 questions game’ and it would ask you questions and guess your answer. This is operating on a macro scale of that. Most ad systems have a lot of subconscious cues from our data points prior to our actual live choices. They run these statistically accurate guesses based on our pattern prediction. Which very much feels like mind reading. It really provokes the questions of how our data points can be pretty invasively used andddd it shows how eventually advertisements will be attempting to guess your next move and control it versus just be there as a suggestion.
This happens to me all the time. I’ve determined none of this world is real.
Its called CELL-phone for a reason it connects to your cells !
No you are not crazy I was on YouTube for the first time in awhile so I don’t watch it often. I was thinking before I put in the search how to do slow-cooker potatoes and I just scroll through the feed and there were three recipes there on the homepage. I never typed this into Google.
Yep
Yup. I don’t know how they do it. It’s sketchy as fuuuuuck
did you say any of those words out loud?
Ages ago someone posted a patent (apple ip, I think) about tech that was capable of transcribing thoughts amplified by maybe our teeth? At the time, it was posited that this was the mechanism used to explain why targeted ads seemed to be reading our minds. Does anyonr else remember that?
Two nights ago I was watching Predator and was noticing how large one of the characters glasses were (the guy that makes all the tasteless jokes). My mind wandered for a while thinking about the last frames I had, and the ones I currently wear – just sort of thinking about glasses in general.
The movie ends, I open reddit and the very first ad is for eyeglass frames. And the next ad, and the next, and the next.
The last time I bought a pair of glasses was 2 years ago. To the best of my knowledge, and I’d wager a fair amount of money on it, I have not talked about or searched for anything glasses related in quite some time.
It’s spooky man.
I had this happen too, thought I was crazy. Happened few more times. Something is going on.
Me and my husband had Youtube on the other night, Billy Joel’s „Scenes from an Italian Restaurant“ came on, watched it many times before but this particular time i noticed in the video that one of the buildings had the word ZANZIBAR on it. I thought to myself ‚ohh that’s a reference to another one of his songs‘ and then thought nothing more of it. The next morning having a quick scroll on Reddit, and not far down i was recommended the ZANZIBAR sub reddit. Huge coincidence, maybe? But i 100% didnt say that word out loud the night before.
I’ve seen many similar posts on here; very sinister.
This happened to me yesterday. I believe you
Don’t most phones have wireless charging?
I was doing bath time with one of my children a few weeks ago and thought that I should look into life insurance. The next day, and for about a week, I kept getting adds for life insurance.
Its been public information for at least a decade that Facebook and Google were researching turning brainwaves into images.
Sometimes I have something in mind that I want to search for on YouTube, and when I type three letters, the exact suggestion of what I was thinking of appears 😯
I’ve been fussed about mentioning this before, but it’s synchronicity. Im fascinated by synchronicities.
I swear one time I was talking to my wife about booking our first ever holiday with the kids whilst I was driving, and the next time I used my phone there was adverts for holidays, in the locations we had discussed even though I hadn’t unlocked my phone.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130127708A1/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230051757A1/en
*Edit
T be really freaked out go to Google ai mode and tell it
„find me the patent for the nanotech brain mesh“
That’s the scary stuff
You aren’t the only one. The first time this happened for me was in 2021 and it has happened again a handful of times since.
I’ve had this happen on something totally random not bought previously or searched in my life. Just a thought in my mind not spoken out loud. I believe you. I dont believe ads are a coincidence.
I was just talking about connex containers with my cousin, no search or anything; then got ads for them for the next month.
You manifested it
It’s because we live in a holographic simulation duh
Happens to me sometimes. And I hace microphone, location, photos permission all off.
After reading replies, I wonder if ppl turned off face id or raise to wale would stop it?
Couple months ago while I was showering and pondering random things, I was reminiscing about early 2000s internet and was wondering what a then famous, now obscure internet comedian was still up to. I hadn’t said a word to anyone or even anything out loud. 4 hours later I get a Facebook ad for the guys podcast. Never got an ad for him before that or after. That was about grounds for smashing my phone. but here I am, still using it.
Happens so much to me and my husband as we think about it more. Wtf 😳
Test the theory think of something deliberately obscure like say a pink banana hairclip and if you do it 3 times with 3 different objects – theres a pattern and confirmation 👍
Your thoughts are frequency . So yes I believe it’s reading your thoughts.
I received a bottle of patron silver for Christmas, as soon as I opened Reddit I had adds for patron silver, this happens alot to me.
100000% you are not crazy. When I watch tik toks I think ‘i’ll send this to so and so’ but then I just get lazy and don’t do it, and while still watching the video tik tok recommends ‘send this to so and so’. It does not do that to practically ANY video except the ones I actively think about sending that person and then don’t send.
Whatever tech it is is either listening or using the camera to read info off our retinas
https://www.youtube.com/live/zBnDWSvaQ1I?si=DsfojldmSmm2yYgm
This is diabolical.
https://ai.meta.com/blog/brain-ai-research-human-communication/
This has happened to me as well… but since you already own a blissy pillow case and it happened a few months ago. They may just retarget you every 90-120 days since that’s the cycle in which you change them out
Sorry for the wall of text but this is something that very much interests me and I’ve looked into extensively. The short answer is yes your phone might be reading your mind, but it likely doesn’t need to read your mind to accurately predict things like this even in case it’s like the one you pointed out with the pillowcases and marker.
One thing algorithms can be good at is finding patterns that humans never would. Obviously not every recommendation system is good at this, but the ones that are the best at it can do it so well it seems impossible.
my favorite example of this is from the early 2000s at Target. The system they had wasn’t even very sophisticated by today’s standards. It would just keep track of all purchases made by each credit card and then look for patterns in that data. „people who buy ice cream have an X times higher chance of buying chocolate syrup. People who buy paper plates have a much higher chance of buying paper bowls.“ etc. Some patterns like that make perfect sense to us. but it would also find patterns that people would never guess and that’s when it starts to feel creepy. in particular one guy tried to sue Target for “encouraging his teenage daughter to get pregnant” when Target mailed her coupons for diapers and baby products. Target claimed that the algorithm was only guessing based on prior purchases, but all she had purchased were some candy and clothes. Well it turns out the daughter was pregnant after all. A lot of people ask the question how did the Target computer algorithm know that the daughter was pregnant when the girl herself didn’t even know at the time? The answer is it didn’t know that at all. It doesn’t know what pregnant is. It just knows that customers who buy a very specific combination of flexible clothes, and certain sweets have a statistically much higher likelihood of buying diapers months later. it’s a correlation that humans would probably never make, but that the algorithm had found in its data. (btw I don’t remember exactly what she bought, but it was something seemingly unrelated to being pregnant.)
this example wasn’t even a very complicated algorithm. It was very simple, just looking at patterns of a people that buy x often buy y so if you buy x, maybe send them coupons for y.
if they’re able to do that, just based on purchase history, with a very simple recommendation algorithm, think about what they’re able to do now with much more complicated algorithms that are AI based and with much much more data coming from our phones and everything else in our house.
The other thing to consider of course is selection bias. The pregnant target girl probably got a lot of coupons for things that were not relevant to her too, but those aren’t interesting. Those aren’t memorable and those don’t make the news. How many emails do you get advertising things that you don’t really care about? we usually only remember the hits not the misses.
so to answer your original question is your phone reading your mind? It’s certainly possible. Not joking. And it’s certainly possible that companies are feeding 3D maps of your home from WiFi telemetry into these algorithms now. It’s been demonstrated to be possible so I’m sure at least a few have tried it. But to me the scary part is they don’t NEED to read your mind to do this. These algorithms can just make crazy accurate predictions sometimes, based on data that we would think is unrelated.
so yeah, you’re not going crazy. This whole thing happens to everybody where they’re like oh my god I never told anyone about this. Why am I seeing an ad for it?
Water and food laced with nanomachines that can build bioelectrical networks that communicate with external networks.
If the technology existed to read your mind, it would not be free.
The products that contained it would be top of the line, luxury models, and it would be advertised and promoted.
People would line up around the block to buy them.