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> these smart speakers only phone home when you say the keyword, right? Without it being open source, there's no guarantee though?
by bergstromm466 6y ago
> these smart speakers only phone home when you say the keyword, right?
Without it being open source, there's no guarantee though?
- TacticalTable 6y agoYou can get a pretty good idea from power usage, storage, and internet usage. Unless there's multiple hidden revolutionary breakthroughs in speech transcription or compression, nothing unsavory is happening at scale.
- bergstromm466 6y ago...most didn't know about the Intel ME chip. A designated onboard black-box chip for transcriptions, that doesn't rely on an a server, would seriously benefit tech corps Would it really be the first time we were lied to/surveilled? When will we stop giving the hyper-growth oriented Silicon Valley startup world the benefit of the doubt?