Easy fix:
Now I’m going to refuse to purchase one even harder!
What the fuck is Alexa+ 🤣🤣🤣
As if I was ever stupid enough to use Alexa.
Duh. This is the AI wet dream. Ads won’t have discrete patterns that can be filtered. The LLM will deliver content specific garbage as if it were a genuine answer to a query. It will just bias towards ads and deliver the ad Ina different personalized manner each time. For as much as everyone likes to bitch about AI. This may be the golden age. It probably just gets worse from here.
I’m pretty sure Amazon got this idea from Black Mirror’s latest season
I’m amazed it didn’t already as someone who has never used or heard one being used. What’s the business model? Just the data harvesting for purpose of their other businesses?
*Amazon testing public backlash before shoving ads into your conversations with Alexa+
FTFY
“brought to you by Carls Jr.”
Their users will accept this.
I bought an Alexa echo long before I actually cared about privacy and I regret it a lot. It’s been a pricey paper weight since then. I wish I could flash some kind of OS and use it as a sound bar or something. I can’t even use the Bluetooth without signing in with amazon account, which requires a lot of data including phone number.
Do you have a shotgun? Makes a respectable flying target.
They’re already making suggestions. Got one this morning telling me I can ask it for updates on Amazon packages.
Speaking of which, anyone have any suggestions for better smart speakers?
I’m not really a smart speaker kind of guy but HomePods are nice, sound quality is pretty good
Mine isn’t. Do you use the full size, or the mini?
Got 8 Google Minis around the house, mostly ceiling mount. First ad that comes out that bitches mouth, I’m taking a 12-gauge to every motherfucking one of them, patch the roof later.
Im sure they’ll try to get you to order ammo as they explode.
Like always, Black Mirror has an episode on this.
Isn’t Black Mirror a manual at this point?
You’re still using Alexa? Unplugged our listening er pod device about a week after we got it.
Same, I got Alexa (the first one with a good speaker) when attended a sales event of another company. I set it up, but after seeing its network activity even when no one was home I shut it down and didn’t use it again.
I don’t understand why people don’t feel weirded out by having an always on listening device.
