• saimen@feddit.org
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    5 months ago

    If the data is there a fascist government will absolutely use it. Of course in a democracy that won’t happen … unless you vote for fascists, ooopsie.

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      5 months ago

      The data isn’t there. At least not in the way some of the biggest fearmongers talk about it. Everything you say to the device, you can assume is there. But it listens for the wake word locally and doesn’t send information to the server until after it receives the wake word.

      • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 months ago

        It’s can hallucinate the wake word and streams everything after. And that’s assuming you trust the manufacturer which, why would you?

        Alexa is wildly popular. What has Amazon done to gain everyone’s trust? They just offer the cheapest version.