3 ms·

Imagine listening to some rap music which contains an audible N-word and your Mercedes-Benz gets locked until you call their customer service.

by belval 3y ago

thelastparadise 3y ago
What!? Is this a reference to something that actually happened?
- CatWChainsaw 3y ago
  I give it six months tops before we "officially" find out M-B is using all conversations in the car as new "training data" and/or basically that ^ exact situation happens.
- bombcar 3y ago
  Yes. The recent Amazon home lockout kerfuffle. A driver reported that he thought the doorbell called him a slur so Amazon closed all the customer’s accounts. We live in the absolute stupidest of dystopias.
  - chasd00 3y ago
    > We live in the absolute stupidest of dystopias. this is so true. When i think of "dystopia" i think of some post apocalyptic hellscape but I think a dystopia of constant irritation from the most stupidest digital policy imaginable is just as valid. What's next, your car/assistant/phone overhearing you talk about voting for someone contrary to the approved party du jour and refusing to start the engine/play music/sms??
- ribosometronome 3y ago
  https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-week-without-amazon-df1074e3818b https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-w... Likely referencing this recent Amazon incident, where a Microsoft engineer was locked out of his Amazon accounts after an Amazon delivery driver reported racist remarks from his smart doorbell (misreported as Ring some places, apparently a Eufy tho). Trusting the engineer, that didn't happen, no one was home or responded to the driver, and the Amazon delivery driver seemingly misheard a pre-programmed response from the doorbell. But that just shows you don't even need to be listening to a song with a slur in it to worry about this sort of thing.

3 ms·

Imagine listening to some rap music which contains an audible N-word and your Mercedes-Benz gets locked until you call their customer service.

by belval 3y ago

Imagine listening to some rap music which contains an audible N-word and your Mercedes-Benz gets locked until you call their customer service.

thelastparadise 3y ago
What!? Is this a reference to something that actually happened?
- CatWChainsaw 3y ago
  I give it six months tops before we "officially" find out M-B is using all conversations in the car as new "training data" and/or basically that ^ exact situation happens.
- bombcar 3y ago
  Yes. The recent Amazon home lockout kerfuffle. A driver reported that he thought the doorbell called him a slur so Amazon closed all the customer’s accounts. We live in the absolute stupidest of dystopias.
  - chasd00 3y ago
    > We live in the absolute stupidest of dystopias. this is so true. When i think of "dystopia" i think of some post apocalyptic hellscape but I think a dystopia of constant irritation from the most stupidest digital policy imaginable is just as valid. What's next, your car/assistant/phone overhearing you talk about voting for someone contrary to the approved party du jour and refusing to start the engine/play music/sms??
- ribosometronome 3y ago
  https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-week-without-amazon-df1074e3818b https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-w... Likely referencing this recent Amazon incident, where a Microsoft engineer was locked out of his Amazon accounts after an Amazon delivery driver reported racist remarks from his smart doorbell (misreported as Ring some places, apparently a Eufy tho). Trusting the engineer, that didn't happen, no one was home or responded to the driver, and the Amazon delivery driver seemingly misheard a pre-programmed response from the doorbell. But that just shows you don't even need to be listening to a song with a slur in it to worry about this sort of thing.