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Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by westfield: 1:55pm On Oct 24, 2024
It's possible le because of the Metadata these apps use .......if you want to stop it go to your settings and remove your microphone from these apps
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by Psoul(m): 1:55pm On Oct 24, 2024
ThugCheetah:
You think of something and then open instagram and see content related to exactly what you’re thinking. I didn’t even say talking cos I know microphones and ai can work that. Just thinking!
I was just discussing this thing with my wife 2 days ago.
After my daughter told me to replace her Aerosoft sandals, boom, the next morning I saw lots of different designs of aerosoft adverts on my Facebookpage.

The other day, I was thinking of replacing my designers reading glasses, before you know it, that particular designer flooded my Facebook.
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by finallybusy: 1:56pm On Oct 24, 2024
Old thing confirmed since 2010. Nairaland is really behind times just like Sango Ota.
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by ViceGovernor: 2:00pm On Oct 24, 2024
ThugCheetah:
Asian guy, [b]many ppl here don’t get what I’m talking about. [/b]I’m an app dev myself I know how to literally create algorithms based on a persons phone activity, convos bla bla bla.. this one is totally different like I have never mentioned a word about it to anyone or looked it up anywhere on any device but somehow they are just able to generate content based on exactly what I was thinking and even ahead of my thoughts. This one pass algorithm and I know what I’m saying!!
Many people are dumb and they hardly pay attention to detail.... some are talking about algorithm and internet footprint.
If only those blind fvcks can open their eyes and notice the pattern.
They would see that phones nowadays can know what you're thinking.

You don't even have to type anything just think about it and boom e go begin appear for your phone.

There are some experiences I've had but the most obvious 1 is that of FB where I always like to stay hidden so I don't search for anybody,I don't send friend requests,I don't comment and I rarely like posts....but soon as I think about someone they will send notification for me to add the person....there's no way That is normal.

Elon musk they say has recently created a device that can enable blind people to see, if that's possible then it's not far-fetched to think that there are devices that can connect to human mind.
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by Honestey: 2:00pm On Oct 24, 2024
Go and do mind purification, your mind has been hacked.
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by GBTYO: 2:01pm On Oct 24, 2024
Adaptive predictive technology

You spend time on your phone more than you realize.

It has come to read your facial expressions using the phone camera no matter how subtle to predict what you are searching for.


Another theory is that your smart phone is equipped with a wireless neural adapter that can actually scan your brain waves and no what you are thinking even before you even think of it.
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by shogsman(m): 2:06pm On Oct 24, 2024
Just algorithm,it learns your interaction on the Internet,what you watch and how much attention to you give to it so it suggests similar content or not at random
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by Growingboi(m): 2:08pm On Oct 24, 2024
Keep quiet and stop talking trash.

Deicide:
Stop being willfully ignorant
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by FireUpNow(m): 2:11pm On Oct 24, 2024
AI generated thoughts
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by moppie123(m): 2:11pm On Oct 24, 2024
You may have searched for it on Google, TikTok, or another platform. Many of these apps track data from other apps, and we often leave digital footprints across various platforms we visit. It can even come from comments you post or videos you like and comment on. Most modern phones use these data to identify your preferences and send targeted adverts to you.

Another reason could be psychological—perhaps you’ve seen those adverts before, but since they weren’t relevant to you at the time, you didn’t pay attention to them. Now that you need the product or service, they’ve become more noticeable to you.
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by NoToPile: 2:12pm On Oct 24, 2024
Hahaha.

I was telling my husband the same thing.

When pregnant everything suggested to me was about pregnancy, for the different stages ooo and it was so accurate.

Time to deliver I was seeing suggestions of contractions how to time it etc etc.

Next thing new born stuffs, how to care for baby cord bleh bleh. Stuffs about your baby growing normally

Even FB reels.

Me I sha know our minds are being read. angry
Apart from trail you leave online, something else is going on.
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by abolaji544: 2:17pm On Oct 24, 2024
ThugCheetah:
You think of something and then open instagram and see content related to exactly what you’re thinking. I didn’t even say talking cos I know microphones and ai can work that. Just thinking!
It normally happen to me also
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by HighChiefZino: 2:26pm On Oct 24, 2024
It tells you that there's A Power in charge of this universe and that the world is deeper than it seems. Though AI is trying to mimic the supernatural, there's a limit to what man or computer algorithms can ever comprehend.
Chukwu OKike, dalu. Ose, degwo. Oluwa, eshe. Allah, nagode
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by henrycloud: 2:27pm On Oct 24, 2024
its more than history and all o. These things have understood human behaviour and patterns. They spook me from time to time. na why my PC camera always dey covered o. But what of my phone? na wa o. AI is just starting.
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by iampeterben(m): 2:33pm On Oct 24, 2024
It's called Algorithm
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by nedekid: 2:34pm On Oct 24, 2024
Op, no be juju be dat? shocked
Wristwatch and cup of tea..
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by Lovelydaisies: 2:44pm On Oct 24, 2024
My husband has dreamed about someone and upon opening Facebook the next day, boom! He sees her.
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by Nobody: 2:45pm On Oct 24, 2024
ThugCheetah:
You think of something and then open instagram and see content related to exactly what you’re thinking. I didn’t even say talking cos I know microphones and ai can work that. Just thinking!
it happens rarely. Even when I want to google
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by chinonfelix2(m): 2:47pm On Oct 24, 2024
But if I think how to be a billionaire it won't show.. what's going on
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by Xinjin: 2:53pm On Oct 24, 2024
It's called smart phone for a reason. there're apps everywhere to do what you thinking of
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by DigitB: 2:57pm On Oct 24, 2024
angelboy01:
Oga it's called algorithm. Whatever key word you press on your phone, an impression will be created to that phone and bring what you want. You might have typed something related to your mind somewhere. It could be the Ai on your phone and since WhatsApp and IG is the same owner it creates such impression and bring what you want to see. It's not about mind hacking.
Educate these superstitious folks pls
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by FayaBall: 3:11pm On Oct 24, 2024
BlueStripper:
He is saying something else entirely. Learn to read and understand please.

STOP ASSUMING EVERYONE ON THIS PLATFORM IS DUMB! WE ARE IN A WORLD WHERE INFORMATION IS JUST A CLICK AWAY. The OP might have done his own research on Algorithms, Internet crawlers and the likes.

I have had a personal experience that left me in shock. In my case, i was talking to a friend about an item. NOTE: I DIDN"T CLICK OR SEARCH ONLINE ABOUT THE MACHINE.

When i tried checking instagram later that night, I saw adverts on the same industrial machine. I had to disable many apps that had permission to my microphone.

SOMETHING IS GOING ON WITHOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE.

We live in a world where DATA is money. Facebook had betrayed its users in the past and guess what? they own instagram and threads.

I repeat, SOMETHING IS GOING ON WITHOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE.

How many of us are conscious of the stock applications on our mobile phone and the rights in which they operate and function?

How many of us have checked our system applications and done a deep research on the functions of each system app?

Update

To those quoting my mention and talking thrash, I will simply say that you are not different from an average Nigerian.

In other places, this would trigger the need for research to ascertain if this is true and the faces behind it. But in this part of the world where people pay money to learn about "London Bridge" and the "Queen of England" instead of "Tudun Tsira - Jebba bridge" or "Queen Amina of Zaria", what should i expect?

What should I expect from a people who do not research but believe that everything from the WEST is BEST.

What should i expect from a people with bogus certificates but cannot challenge what they are being taught to ascertain factuality.
I have experienced the very same thing also and like you I came to the same conclusion.

Do not bother yourself with what some may be saying, you know people here do not like it when you have thought of something that may not have crossed their minds at all. cheesy
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by dinero101(m): 3:18pm On Oct 24, 2024
Happens a lot to me
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by Chazzyboy: 3:19pm On Oct 24, 2024
ThugCheetah:
You think of something and then open instagram and see content related to exactly what you’re thinking. I didn’t even say talking cos I know microphones and ai can work that. Just thinking!
same here I think is this Ai stuff
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by ojinuocheibi(m): 3:32pm On Oct 24, 2024
ThugCheetah:
You think of something and then open instagram and see content related to exactly what you’re thinking. I didn’t even say talking cos I know microphones and ai can work that. Just thinking!
have you ever seen a demon before? No! Because they are all in electricity and phone is not an exception.
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by 2elliot: 3:36pm On Oct 24, 2024
Dujardin:
The inspiration behind invention may be spiritual BUT the actual Technology and all of its implementation is NOT spiritual.

No one has made technology that reads the human mind, at least nothing of sort is commercial, talkless of putting it in tiny devices.

Internet is now like our everyday market. Virtually evrything sold in real life is being sold online and someone is running ads to get more sale. What OP is experiencing is just pure coincidence.

Next time you think of something totally random, try not to tell anyone or say it, don't google it., you'll not see it on your socials.
Internet of bodies have gone past smart watches or any of those normal technological devices. Stop playing. Our minds are hackable now. The WEF globalists already has the means to implement transhumanism.
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by Taiwo20(m): 3:40pm On Oct 24, 2024
Most apps are actively listening. you might want to disable microphone for most apps
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by Ten06(m): 3:42pm On Oct 24, 2024
There is nothing scary there. You should know by now that your phone listens to you every time and they will use what you talked about to set advisement for you.
You can switch it off in your google setting
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by millionboi2: 3:46pm On Oct 24, 2024
ThugCheetah:
You think of something and then open instagram and see content related to exactly what you’re thinking. I didn’t even say talking cos I know microphones and ai can work that. Just thinking!
yes, before it was talk na even think e go show.
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by MomentMan(m): 3:47pm On Oct 24, 2024
angelboy01:
Oga it's called algorithm. Whatever key word you press on your phone, an impression will be created to that phone and bring what you want. You might have typed something related to your mind somewhere. It could be the Ai on your phone and since WhatsApp and IG is the same owner it creates such impression and bring what you want to see. It's not about mind hacking.
Same as YouTube.
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by Mariangeles(f): 3:49pm On Oct 24, 2024
ThugCheetah:
You think of something and then open instagram and see content related to exactly what you’re thinking. I didn’t even say talking cos I know microphones and ai can work that. Just thinking!
You have been bugged dude! grin
Re: Phone Users, Am I The Only One Experiencing This Scary Thing by Mariangeles(f): 4:01pm On Oct 24, 2024
angelboy01:
Oga it's called algorithm. Whatever key word you press on your phone, an impression will be created to that phone and bring what you want. You might have typed something related to your mind somewhere. It could be the Ai on your phone and since WhatsApp and IG is the same owner it creates such impression and bring what you want to see. It's not about mind hacking.
Mark must be stopped.
Little wonder he was so desperate to acquire Twitter (now X ).
Opelope Elon Musk.
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