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Comment by geoduck14

5 years ago

I would like the Alexa team to reward politeness.

Like if you say "Alexa, please mute", you could unlock a new voice or a funny joke or something.

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gumby  5 years ago

Creating a better world, albeit one spy-device at a time.

  • DaiPlusPlus  5 years ago

    We laugh, but in all seriousness, what evidence is there that Amazon is acting unethically with the Echo devices?

    • gumby  5 years ago

      Counterevidence: some of them (perhaps all) have a hardware switch to mute the microphone, a requirement allegedly set by the CEO.

      Parallel evidence: the Ring acquisition has aggressively integrated itself with police forces.

      Partial evidence: some of the devices are known to retain data even after being reset to factory settings (I presume it's a bug).

      It has to be listening all the time for its activation command and we have no idea what it's doing with the data that comes in and is determined not to be the activation command.

yreg  5 years ago

I believe Google assistant has some optional mode where it makes children say please.