At this point, it's not paranoia. I know that my android phone can read my mind.
Or at least the biggest thought or most repetitive concept that my train of thought forms into unspoken words.
Case in point:
I was on a beach with no wifi. I see a German shepherd dog playing with his owners child in the sand. I think to myself, " what a well-trained beautiful German shepherd".
The next time I check my phone and scroll down to see the next TFTC Bitcoin podcast, there is a video short of German shepherd dogs that I have to scroll past.
I don't watch videos of dogs, or reels, or anything besides long-form financial stuff.
This is at least the 5th, highly specific thing that Google has taken from my inner monologue in the past years.
The last internal question was Schrader versus Regular bike tire valves. My phone displayed to me the answer the next time I looked at it. I don't know how that's just predicting.
I don't know how it works, but I know at least the words that I dwell on in my mind seem to translate to the Google algo.
Could just be LLM predictions. maybe my brain is so simple they can guess within 5 topics what I'm thinking about.