Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10B this year

Re:Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10... by PostOnce on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:28PM (#33701422)

It has to listen to detect the activation word, doesn't it? -- therefore, it's listening all the time.

The speaker also starts recording a few seconds before a command is issued, meaning there’s likely more private information in the recordings than customers are aware of. from https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/12/18089090/amazon-ech...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/business/amazon-echo-murd...

Those two links are from two different murder cases for which Alexa/Amazon data was subpoenaed. There are probably others.

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Re:Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10... by akira2501 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @03:25AM (#33703380)

Google will let you download your entire voice activation history. That's always an interesting listen.

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Re:Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10... by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @04:02AM (#33703627)

they really ought to delete the data after its processed

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Re:Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10... by kennu on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:59PM (#33708708)

I think that semantic discussion on what constitutes as "listening" is not as interesting as what it actually does with the signal received from the microphone. I posted a description of that in this thread earlier.

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