Anonymous ID: 1009ad April 10, 2019, 5:25 p.m. No.6127717   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7837 >>8002

>>6127697

>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-10/global-network-amazon-employees-listening-alexa-conversations

Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa

 

Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia. Millions more are reluctant to invite the devices and their powerful microphones into their homes out of concern that someone might be listening.

 

Sometimes, someone is.

 

Amazon.com Inc. employs thousands of people around the world to help improve the Alexa digital assistant powering its line of Echo speakers. The team listens to voice recordings captured in Echo owners’ homes and offices. The recordings are transcribed, annotated and then fed back into the software as part of an effort to eliminate gaps in Alexa’s understanding of human speech and help it better respond to commands.

 

The Alexa voice review process, described by seven people who have worked on the program, highlights the often-overlooked human role in training software algorithms. In marketing materials Amazon says Alexa “lives in the cloud and is always getting smarter.” But like many software tools built to learn from experience, humans are doing some of the teaching.

 

The team comprises a mix of contractors and full-time Amazon employees who work in outposts from Boston to Costa Rica, India and Romania, according to the people, who signed nondisclosure agreements barring them from speaking publicly about the program. They work nine hours a day, with each reviewer parsing as many as 1,000 audio clips per shift, according to two workers based at Amazon’s Bucharest office, which takes up the top three floors of the Globalworth building in the Romanian capital’s up-and-coming Pipera district. The modern facility stands out amid the crumbling infrastructure and bears no exterior sign advertising Amazon’s presence.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/is-anyone-listening-to-you-on-alexa-a-global-team-reviews-audio?srnd=premium

Anonymous ID: 1009ad April 10, 2019, 5:34 p.m. No.6127837   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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#7836 baker change

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>>6127519 Lurker anon thinks biggest proof is the heavy shilling

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Anonymous ID: 1009ad April 10, 2019, 5:48 p.m. No.6128002   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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>>6127792 Prominent Minnesota businessman, ex CEO, and wife found dead in apparent murder-suicide

>>6127784 Judicial Watch uncovers 'Cover-Up' discussions in latest HRC Email docs

>>6127717, >>6127697 Amazon Employees, Alexa listening to your conversations

>>6127677 New HuffPo conspiracy theory: Barr harming people with Obamacare lawsuit

>>6127528 I'm the boss! Trump gracefully reminds us of Stephen Miller's place (DCExaminer)

>>6127519 Lurker anon thinks biggest proof is the heavy shilling

>>6127498 David Rothschild twitter poll (kek) Who is more credible: A Jones or Barr?

>>6127448 Panic In DC: Pelosi says Barr is "off the rails" (CNN)

>>6127346 Fake News salty tears, crying over Barr using the term "spying"

 

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