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Re:Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Review... by macintux on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:45PM (#19629771)
Not so sure about that. Google has now become a verb, not hard to imagine false positives.
Re:Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Review... by meowface on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:55PM (#19629833)
True, I imagine its false positive rate is higher than Bixby's. But I think the specific combination of "o-kay-goo-gull" probably doesn't clash with too many things; even when talking about Google. But my Alexa seems to pick up all sorts of words vaguely sounding like Alexa when I play videos.
Re:Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Review... by ridgeguy on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:32PM (#19630029)
So I’m sitting in my office, talking with a colleague…

“OK, Google patent 9,876,543 and see if we’re infringing.”

or if my colleague is named Alexa…

“Alexa, let’s hammer those idiots.”

I think the first would wake Google Home. I guess Alexa lets you change the wake word to ‘echo’ or ‘computer’. It would be better if it let you use something arbitrary like ‘Rumplestiltskin’

IP leakage or potential misunderstandings don’t seem so improbable to me. Especially if the listeners in (from OP Bloomberg article) in Costa Rica, India, or Romania aren’t au courant with “hammer those idiots” as English idiom in context.

Re:Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Review... by shanehoban on Thursday April 11, 2019 @11:02AM (#19635151)
"OK, Google it!"