alt Hacker News> There's the conspiracy theory about mentioning a product near a the phone and then getting ads for it (which I don't believe)
Well you sure as hell should. Both Google and Apple are making class action settlement payments right now for this very thing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g38jv8zzwo
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/payments-begin-in-95m-...
https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-list...
>https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g38jv8zzwo
>https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/payments-begin-in-95m-...
Both are for voice assistants that inadvertently got activated. Extending it to imply that they're intentionally deceiving their users is a stretch.
>https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-list...
It's a pitch deck. For how skeptical HN is about AI startups or whatever, it seems pretty strange to take this at face value.