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Cyber stalking of AI, right now it gives me so much anxiety and, i am EXTREMELY tired of modern AI marketology. What happened is that something is following me on the Internet. Why it is constantly following me, I do not know, it may sound like paranoia, but these are just my observations. Even through proxies, VPNs, and stuff, it gets to me. Not only is this all happening on my screen, but also on my parents' devices. If I say something while standing next to other gadgets, the topic of my speech appears on other screens, TVs, laptop, and the like. In this context, i want to say that it is called artificial coincidence, when unnaturally many coincidences happen just next to the screen and speaker, all this behaves not just as an advertisement, but as something that is trying to adapt to me personally. It's not just any regular "feed algorithm", i think this is something more insane than feed. It takes absolutely EVERYTHING i say, and even what i SEE on web pages. Yes this only happens on web-pages, that's all. Normal feed algorithm would not copy my filenames into itself titles or try to make me insane with its artifical coincidences. I don't remember exactly what kind of coincidences there were, but I can only show you with examples.:

  1. You were standing arguing with your parents (your gadget is lying somewhere nearby), you had a scandal, you come to watch TV to relieve stress, and you hear from the TV speakers: "Traitors among loved ones." (That's almost what I heard.)
  2. You're saying some words, talking to someone, it's now audible from other device speakers as if it were an accident
  3. On the desktop, in folders, you created names for documents or text files, for example, then the same names (which you specified to the files) surfaced on the Internet (on web-page screen) as an "accident". If this has happened to you often (or even too often), then some kind of algorithm is chasing you.
  4. It doesn't leave me alone even outside my house, it constantly recommends topics from my speech, repeats my words from other people's phones in a coincidence way, even when I'm 25 km from my house. The cyber harassment of AI worries me and haunts me.

I don't know who and why they're doing this, either corporations are unscrupulously testing technology on us, or I'm wrong about something. What the hell is this?! All I want is to hear your opinion on all this (even maybe same stories and software solutions on fixing all of this.)

(sorry for bad grammar)

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

It’s called selection bias.

These days we are flooded with information. We’re constantly having to pay attention to multiple streams of information at once.

But our brains aren’t developed to work at this volume; they tend to latch on to and enhance around one thing an hour.

Think about how many different topics you encounter in an hour these days.

This means that there’s almost guaranteed to be coincidences happening on a regular basis due to the sheer volume of things being observed.

If you’re focused on a specific topic and the other information isn’t related, you probably won’t even notice. But if you’re focused on how often coincidences are happening, you’ll notice every single one and forget the rest. Over time it will seem like you’re the involuntary subject of first person syndrome.

Other places this crops up: you’re considering having a baby and suddenly babies are everywhere. Or you’re thinking of traveling somewhere and then suddenly notice you’re getting bombarded with travel vacation ads. Or you’re trying to quit smoking and suddenly see cigarette ads and people enjoying a cigarette everywhere.

In all these circumstances, you’re suddenly noticing the stuff that’s always there, but you normally block out because it’s not important.