Re:Show HN: ScriX – Chrome extension summarizing speech into...
by molli on Friday May 03, 2024 @03:26PM
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These are noble values! But how to build a tool for easy transcription and summarization then?
Re:Show HN: ScriX – Chrome extension summarizing speech into...
by hagbard_c on Friday May 03, 2024 @04:52PM
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At this moment, not just yet. Once either the models have come down in size or hardware has caught up with the demands so they can be run locally it will become feasible to offer such functionality in a way which does not sacrifice privacy to convenience.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-real...
If you follow that link you'll be told they're Sorry, but we can’t find the page you were looking for. Fortunately there is the Internet Archive to save the day:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200919102818/https://www.wefor...
There is a sentence at the end of the article which refers to the death of privacy in the service of this brave, new world: Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.
Since these ideas did not go down that well - which is an understatement - the lede was buried and later still removed from the site but the push towards giving up personal privacy has in no way diminished. Think of that the next time you consider using one of these 'handy' services, also the next time you log in to your cloud account. How much of your personal life did you entrust to that cloud vendor? Maybe the time has come to take it back?