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"Of course, having a live, networked, corporate-controlled mic in your bedroom, living room and toilet is an idea that is so unbelievably terrible on its face t
by tinbad 10y ago
"Of course, having a live, networked, corporate-controlled mic in your bedroom, living room and toilet is an idea that is so unbelievably terrible on its face that you could use it as the introduction to a term paper in 2040 explaining how human civilization nearly collapsed in the early 21st century."
This was the highlight of the article for me.
- back_beyond 10y agoWhat about one in your pocket?
- eeZah7Ux 10y agoThey are both bad in different ways. The first one is meant to listen all the time.
- gotthemwmds 10y agothat's why mine is next to a tv that sits on broadcast tv all day -- confuse em
- agumonkey 10y agoNice feedback loop.
- craftkiller 10y agoI'd recommend switching to talk radio. It would be far too easy to flag and filter syndicated television.
- protomyth 10y agoIt would be funny to let it listen to a Numbers Station[1] all day long. If they are actually listening and processing, it might make for a fun feedback loop particularly of any theories about those stations are true. 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
- beardog 10y agoor setup your own number station from a russian VPS and waste millions of tax dollars as intelligence agencies around the globe try to crack your garbage data
- rdtsc 10y ago"You're violating our anti-AI confusion End User Agreement, so you are banned for life from Google. Anyone associate d with you will have their GMail account deleted as well. Please contact Google support if have any questions".
- IshKebab 10y agoIt's meant to listen locally all the time. If Google/Amazon wanted to be evil and snoop on us it would take exactly the same amount of effort. Besides, many phones listen all the time too. The only real difference is that the Echo has better microphones than your phone and is powered on all the time so you don't have to worry about battery life. On the other hand you probably say more sensitive things to your phone.
- jrockway 10y agoI live alone. I probably type a lot more intimate information into the computer than I say out loud. So if human civilization collapses, your term paper will probably start with that, and these always-listening devices will merely be an interesting footnote.
- internaut 10y agoRecovery of civilization by 2040? What is this boundless optimism? :-)