I expect them to improve their voice recognition which is way behind essentially everyone else's, especially Google's. There's nothing wrong with improving the tech in this manner as long as user's aren't surprised by it.
The fact that people are surprised by it is a problem though.
Given the way this is being debated, it's almost certainly undesired by customers and even potentially problematic under the GDPR.
but, given their recent drive, they should have asked for permission
They haven't done anything with your data, though, that doesn't show they 100% value your privacy. None of these recordings are identifiable and they're scrapped once they're audited. If you turn off Siri functionality, they're all automatically deleted whether they've been audited or not.
This is all addressed on the Siri screen right before you train Siri to recognize "Hey Siri".
This is true, but that doesn't automatically make it okay for them to offload this expensive resource to their customers without making it transparent that they were doing so.
>This is literally what google voice was for
Who cares? It's completely expected from Google, they use their customer data to do everything. I expect more from Apple. They have a (so far) great track record of protecting their customer's privacy. I fully expect Google, Facebook, et al to be doing ML on my photos, and that's why I'm bought into the Apple ecosystem instead of Google's. I value that my data is private more than being bombarded with stupid "collections" that the Google Assistant puts together with AI.
I really hope this doesn't indicate a new direction for Apple.