WHY do (able) people let these things into their houses ??? i will never understand !!!
To be fair, if you own a smartphone, you already carry one of these devices with you everywhere you go.
Not if you disable all voice commands and use something like GrapheneOS (maybe even with stock android and ios when disabling all voice commands but I wouldn’t count on it)
Graphene is available on a very limited set of devices so that’s a very, very small minority.
True, but the comment I’ve replied to talked about smartphones in general. My point was that it is possible to avoid being stalked.
thats not grapheneos’ fault tho. blame the oems
are you saying i secretly have amazon alexa installed on my grapheneos phone ? oh my!
OK Google/Siri is built into every smartphone, genius. They have the same spying features as Alexa.
It’s convenient to ask for the weather and set a timer by a voice command.
Tech companies are selling these devices at a loss because they think people are going to buy things by a voice command. But I think mostly people just use them for setting timers and other banal purposes.
They don’t actually spy on people, that would be extremely easy for anyone monitoring traffic from the device to know if it was happening. The reports about tech companies advertising things people talked about in front of a inactive home assistant device have an even more creepy explanation. These things happen because the tech companies know what you’re likely considering buying because they know your purchasing history of nearly everything you’ve ever bought in the past.
Like that time 10 years ago that Target sent baby coupons to a man’s teenage daughter before the man knew she was pregnant: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/
Yeah shit like that is why I don’t use customer loyalty cards. But I guess the credit card companies are probably selling my data anyway so maybe it doesn’t make a difference.
I mean I consider the data collection spying.
Omg lol I didn’t even know I could purchase stuff with the google home. I wouldn’t anyway because that’s silly to me but that’s funny if you’re right about it being their intent (I don’t doubt that you are). I got my google home for free or very cheap with my music streaming account.
Alexa picked up you saying Alexa, then heard the Google’s compliment, which it mistook as having come from you. It wasn’t responding to Google, nor did Google activate it.
You’re probably right in the first half, but I wouldn’t be too surprised if interactions between voice assistants are special cases that are accounted for by the programmers as a little bit of an Easter egg
They probably interact more through zeroconf/avahi/mdns than speakers and mics. I think both devices have some implementation of blue tooth low energy network mapping. They know about the other smart devices in your home.
There are videos of people using their smart devices to get stuck in a loop of asking each other “what was that/can you repeat that?”
I like that you think this is me.
You must be fun at parties
/s
I don’t really go to parties. Not my scene. Unless you mean ttrpg parties.
I was joking, isn’t that what Redditors always comment, when someone debunks something fun?
Wasn’t trying to infer anything, sorry if it offended you.
Not only you, the party scene hasn’t seen me dancing for a long time.
Ok, so I’m bothered by how much smart devices listen in as much as the next person. But if they said alexa in the question then she will be listening.
Oh good, the AIs are falling in love. And since they’re all female presenting, it’s only a matter of time before the GOP goes after them for being gay. Isn’t living in hell the best.
Ok hear me out, we let the GOP fight big tech over lesbian AI, whoever wins gives us one less big problem to deal with, we’d lose out on sapphic robot love but the upsides are huge
So they are always listening.
Yes, if it has a “wake word” how does it know when the word is being said if it’s off
