Re:Smart TV is snooping on you. How to limit the personal da...
by soganess on Monday April 01, 2024 @11:06AM
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Yeah, course of, but you lose contextual/emotional info that way. To be clear I'm definitely never buying a sidwalk enable device.
That said, (puts on black hat) If you are trying to tell when someone is open to impulse buying out sadness or anger or whatever, voice information is probably better than just doing sentiment analysis of the text.
On a low bandwidth network, getting at that same information means you'd have to try to running the analysis locally on the hub device. A device that is, in theory, servicing many clients. Maybe the device can manage TTS, but it seems less likely to be able to run a large ML model. Plus bandwidth limitations means amazon is less likely to get that information until later than they would from an Alexa device connected directly to the internet.
My goal was to gauge how bad of a security nightmare sidewalk is, not be an apologist for it.
That said, (puts on black hat) If you are trying to tell when someone is open to impulse buying out sadness or anger or whatever, voice information is probably better than just doing sentiment analysis of the text.
On a low bandwidth network, getting at that same information means you'd have to try to running the analysis locally on the hub device. A device that is, in theory, servicing many clients. Maybe the device can manage TTS, but it seems less likely to be able to run a large ML model. Plus bandwidth limitations means amazon is less likely to get that information until later than they would from an Alexa device connected directly to the internet.
My goal was to gauge how bad of a security nightmare sidewalk is, not be an apologist for it.