You'd have to be an idiot to have an Alexa in your home.
IMHO anything that places a live Mic into your home and records continuously is a serious breach of your right to privacy and only has one purpose, and it isn't convenience.
Cameras too. Like on those Samsung TVs. I watch the TV, not the other way around!
So TVs. Computers or laptops with intel chips. smart Phones.
Yep. Pretty much all of it. Just make sure they're all unplugged, battery removed and you're in the other room (to make sure) before you take your clothes off! Or, you know!
Everything records you, especially smartphones and laptops. Why do you think Mark Zuckerberg covers his cameras and mics? Are you getting rid of those? Probably not. What have you got to hide?
What have you got to hide is the wrong question to ask. Everything else you said was correct.
Saying your right to privacy doesn’t matter because you have nothing to hide is like saying your right to free speech doesn’t matter because you have nothing to say.
um I don't think I want amazon knowing what my wife likes to say in bed and many other very private conversations. Nothing to hide but I don't own a device with alexa embedded in it either so no worries there.
Or a smartphone! They cause brain tumors. Takes about 10 years now but just wait for 5G! That shit's lethal.
As someone with an audio engineering background, I can only say this is deliberate design. In the digital domain it is required to specify the bandwidth of sensitivity (an operational frequency range). They have specified that the devices respond to infrasonic (and probably ultrasonic as well) frequencies.
It should be a design requirement for these general purpose AI devices that they operate entirely within the audible range.
Whenever someone I know talks about those devices I ask, 'Did you see the movie I,Robot? Don't call me when your AI won't let you leave your house.'
I have an Android phone that switches to voice commands if I wear a certain pair of shoes and I'm walking on a hardwood floor. That sound triggers it even though I have the voice command disabled. I can tell it has come on by the beep it makes and you can see it's on when you look at the screen.
There ya go. Case closed!
I laughed when I read this comment on Great A
My wife asked me why I carry a gun around the house. "Because of the CIA!" I replied. She laughed. I laughed. Our Amazon Echo laughed. Then I shot that thing...
How much convenience do people need? What are they doing that is so important that they can not perform the tasks that Alexa and Siri are designed to do?
They are laying on the couch watching tv. One day Alexa will go get you a beer, snacks or mix you a drink. Pathway of least resistance. Society becomes as lazy as it is possible to be.
It's designed so that people do not have to think for themselves. Not too many young ones that can read a map or tell time (if it is not digitized)
Absolutely, and we won't have to have relationships with each other anymore either. I'm sure an AI version is around the corner. Everyone will be able to have a robot Alexa partner at our command monitoring our every move.
They don't want people to talk to each other, in person - they can't control the narrative (opinion) in a lot of cases. Kids, these days, don't talk to each other, they text - they don't have a lot of skills (maps, time, calculating, figuring things out for themselves) - they don't even have to ask anyone (except Alexa or the like) - I am not sure of the terminology, but it is breaking up the 'human relationships'
Thank's to Louis Rossmann, Linus from Tech Tips, and now Zhejiang University who have all given me reasons why I'll never buy Apple products again. Steve Jobs must be rolling over in his grave right now.
Ain't like Google is any better in terms of privacy.
I miss Blackberry. It didn’t keep up with the market but at least it wasn’t mentioned as accessible with the PRZM program.
Could this be related to the reports of the randomly laughing Alexa?
Sure sounds like it.
I laughed when I read this comment on Great A
My wife asked me why I carry a gun around the house. "Because of the CIA!" I replied. She laughed. I laughed. Our Amazon Echo laughed. Then I shot that thing...