They did that long before any AI. You can't blame everything on AI.
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And our phones haven't been??
Not like this.
If everyone's phones had been actively using the microphone without consent to record people, we would have found out by now. I know a lot of people like to say that "oh I got this ad that only showed up because I talked about x with a friend and my phone heard me," but that's just due to both selection bias and a number of other tracking methods and datapoints other than conversations.
do they care though. they are there for it.