Instagram chief denies mic-spying myth

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00:00Instagram chief denies Mike's spying myth.

00:03Instagram boss Adam Mosseri wants you to know,

00:06no, your phone isn't secretly eavesdropping on your late night ramen cravings.

00:11In a post this week, Mosseri tried to debunk the theory that Meta turns on your microphone for creepy ads.

00:16He even admitted his own wife has asked if Instagram is listening.

00:20As Meta prepares to target ads based on how you interact with its AI products,

00:24most of us know the feeling.

00:26You chat about hiking boots, then an ad for Trail Gear shows up.

00:30Coincidence, Witchcraft or Mark Zuckerberg?

00:32Mosseri insists it's not microphones.

00:35Instead, he says, it's Meta's recommendation engine doing what it does best,

00:40using advertiser data and lookalike profiles to predict what you'll click.

00:44If we were secretly recording you, Mosseri added,

00:47your battery would die and you'd see your mic light on.

00:50Meta has denied the mic myth before.

00:52Mark Zuckerberg even swore under oath in Congress in 2018.

00:56But now, Meta is rolling out a new privacy policy on December 16th to tap into user interactions

01:04with Meta AI.

01:06Since people share far more personal details with chatbots than in a normal scroll,

01:10that's like handing the world's nosiest ad machine an even bigger notebook.

01:14Mosseri also argues that psychology often explains the creepiness.

01:18Maybe you saw an ad before the conversation, didn't register it,

01:22and later thought your phone read your mind.

01:25Humans, he suggests, are bad at remembering what came first, the thought or the scroll.

01:29So no, Instagram isn't wiretapping your brunch plans.

01:33But with Meta's new AI-driven ad strategy, it might not need to.

01:37If the microphone myth dies, it may be replaced by something even creepier,

01:41the feeling that the algorithm knows you better than you know yourself.

01:48But with Meta's new AI-driven ad strategy, it's a robust pinch of skill.

01:55The third tab is basically an ad