Anonymous #1 13h

That’s what I hate the most about the AI push. Calling everything; search engines, QR code generators, voice chats/assistants, translators.., AI. It’s annoying. And have the time these features are stupid, not an improvement and added on top of existing feature (search engines for example).

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Anonymous #1 13h

And there have been a lot of investigations that voice assistants are always recording. I think it was Alexa that got caught and the recordings included a couple having sex. :|

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Anonymous capn_cunt 13h

They are always listening for a “wake word”, but this detection is also done on-device. Sometimes there are false positives (I’ve seen this with Siri and Alexa). You can turn the “Hey Siri” feature off if you don’t want it to listen for that

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Anonymous #1 13h

Sorry I guess it’s controversial to say it’s a bad thing this is happening and that the companies are storing that information. What reason would they have to store what people are saying…

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Anonymous capn_cunt 13h

This is the feature I’m referring to that seems like it’s re-announced. It’s pretty minor and may just be an error on the reporter’s part, but the ability to add a reminder by typing “Do X at Y time” and have it actually create a reminder titled “Do X” and alert at Y time has been there for a while. That’s not even powered by an LLM, unless they’ve changed it recently. There are much smaller models (not LLMs) that can pick up days of the week and times for this purpose

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Anonymous #1 13h

This just feels like laziness….

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Anonymous capn_cunt 13h

Nothing about your conversations leaves your device unless it hears the wake word. I agree that sometimes it’s too sensitive, and I personally turned off my Alexa because of a combination of not using it and having far too many false positives

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Anonymous #1 13h

Then how did these recordings get leaked… “they don’t leave your device” my ass

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Anonymous capn_cunt 13h

It’s a pretty simple feature tbh. It saves a few clicks, especially on a computer. No need to poke around the calendar, scroll through the dates, accidentally set something for AM instead of PM (I’ve accidentally done this several times). The model behind it is simply looking for things that look like date and time-related phrases

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Anonymous capn_cunt 13h

They got sent because it heard “Alexa” for some reason. Everything after “Alexa” *is* sent to Amazon. I have zero clue why it happens and just told you I turned off my Alexa myself, partially because of this issue. Things like “I’ll text you” (said quickly) can be picked up by mistake. I know people who have siblings named Alexa and they changed the word to “Echo” because it triggered wayyyy too often

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Anonymous #1 13h

A news anchor once discussed a story about a kid ordering things through Alexa and it actually triggered people’s own devices and ordered vacuum cleaners (because that’s what the news anchor said)

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