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>> That's just your phone.

That is how most people will interface with their "personal assistant bot".

Don't be surprised if it listens to all your phone conversations, reads all your text messages and email, and curates all your contacts in order to "better help you".

When you login to your $LARGE_CORPORATION account on your laptop or desktop computer, the same bot(s) will be there to "help" and collect data in a similar manner.



It already does. I asked a friend about a medical condition on whatsapp. I started getting ads about quack solutions immediately on instagram.


Your life insurance just went up.




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