Comment by gruez
14 hours ago
>https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g38jv8zzwo
>https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/payments-begin-in-95m-...
Both are for voice assistants that inadvertently got activated. Extending it to imply that they're intentionally deceiving their users is a stretch.
>https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-list...
It's a pitch deck. For how skeptical HN is about AI startups or whatever, it seems pretty strange to take this at face value.
> Extending it to imply that they're intentionally deceiving their users is a stretch.
If you say so. They directly profited from it.
So? You "directly profit" from picking up a bundle of cash robbers dropped as well doing the actual robbery. That doesn't mean someone who does the former is going to do the latter.