I’m never putting one of these in my home.

  • lntl@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    haven’t we all known this since product launch ?

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        1 year ago

        What’s fucked up is if you try to regulate it and make these companies have data retention policies. It creates a giant moat around them where no newcomer can have a chance to compete.

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          1 year ago

          That’s because you are not enforcing data portability at the same time. Having studied and discussed the GDPR at length within tech circles, I became convinced that data portability is the ultimate right and the key to ensure continuing innovation

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            1 year ago

            data portability is the ultimate right and the key to ensure continuing innovation

            Interoperability in general is the solution to walled gardens and monopolies that harm competition, consumers, and innovation.

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        1 year ago

        that’s fair. i work with data for a living so that probably biases my perspective

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    1 year ago

    not sure how much they’ll learn from me screaming “you dumb bitch” at it

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    1 year ago

    We always knew that. What they don’t tell you is your phone is also secretly listening. “Ok Google” <- turn that thing off too

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    An always on microphone connected to a company that is mostly known to exploit their customers and employees! Say it ain’t so!

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    1 year ago

    The new Amazon AI is going to be remarkably foul-mouthed. Every time it screws up (and it screws up a lot) I have to curse at it to make it shut up so it can hear the command again.

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    These types of projects are driven by metrics, and teams have some kind of quota/goal that they need to reach by a certain date to keep the project on schedule. Bonuses or job security may be on the line here, and so you may see some desperate employees “going the extra mile” to reach their goals.

    Relatedly, Alexa’s voice activation sensitivity is essentially a tunable number. It can be changed to be more sensitive, so that it will activate more easily (e.g. maybe you say “Alex” instead of “Alexa”). The people who control this are likely on the team with that deadline, so the incentives are there to lower this value in order to collect more data by recording personal conversations “accidentally”. Maybe a bad update goes out that causes Alexa to activate randomly, and they quickly fix it after a few days when they collected all the non-Alexa personal conversations they need for their AI.

    That’s maybe a bit too deep into the paranoia/tinfoil hat spectrum for some, but history has shown that you can’t give big tech the benefit of the doubt. Especially when you see some of the documents from the Google trial, where executives discuss rolling back new features to improve arbitrary metrics in the short term so that they can get their bonuses for the quarter, even if it hurts consumers.

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    So who thinks this conversation here on lemmy isn’t being used to train an AI? Maybe not right now but later?

    Sure the relatively small size of lemmy means it might not be scooped up and trained on. But the point still stands. All that is publicly online is food for the big-corp AI builders. And while Alexa invading your home privacy is obviously a shitty thing, I’m not sure we’ve all thought through the new relationship between us, the internet and the big AIs.

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      1 year ago

      The only thing an AI trained on Lemmy will ever be able to do is discuss the merits of socialism and talk about Linux lol

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        it is a link to another post with few, but not limited to, reasons

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          it is only hard if you want it to be hard

          WTF is this bullshit. Not everyone is equally capable and this reductionist shit is hurting those that do need the help.

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            well the title says “as long as you can”, not sure what is the issue here, just do whatever you can, don’t fold if you don’t need to, that’s it

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    And Pokémon Go uses your location for its gameplay

    That’s kind of how this shit works…

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    Is this a surprise to anyone?

    This was already my understanding when I got the first pre-release one in 2014.

    In that time, it has mainly learned how to"dim the living area lights to 50%" and “set the AC to 22 degrees”. That is about 99% of it’s use.

    Wonder if that’s helped it’s AI much…

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    1 year ago

    Who the fuck are buying these ? I really want to meet the person who has one of these in their home.