Google is working on a new feature called “Audio Memory” for Pixel phones that will “keep track of what you hear throughout your day.”
  • Chr0nos1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33 minutes

    Outside of the MASSIVE security concerns that this would present, this would be an immensely helpful feature for me.

  • dasrael@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3 hours

    I saw this title and immediately said “fuck off” then clicked, and …glad to see OP sharing my immediate sentiment.

  • Tabooki2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56 minutes

    Creepy but this would be very helpful. Hopefully it’s on device instead of the cloud.

    • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1 hour

      The Commodore Callback has perfect timing haha.

      Really the only thing I’d miss with it is Google Wallet and Android Auto.

      • Donkter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        56 minutes

        My only barrier to it is the T9 text input. I’m constantly writing notes on my phone. I would have a hard time if I had to T9 every note in.

    • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
      2 hours

      I recently got rid of my smart watch when Samsung enshitified it and locked a bunch of features like weather updates behind an account, years after I bought the watch.

      Now I have a dumb mechanical watch (quartz crystal, not spring winding) that will last years before I need to replace the battery. Everything it does, it does better than a smart watch. Not having to do the wrist flick gesture 1-3 times to check the time has been amazing. And I’m not constantly broadcasting Bluetooth anymore.

        • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          45 minutes

          By then Motorola will have shipped the first round of “with Graphene pre installed” devices, assuming they stay with their plan.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6 hours

    The people who called me crazy because “there’s no way your phone can be listening in on you all the time” are the same people who are going to be the most excited about this “feature”

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
        55 minutes

        Im a perfect world, as they claim, its a secondary system listening that isn’t recording or transmitting anything, and is meant to be low power. If it hears the wake up word, it wakes up the other mic and starts recording.

        Thats how they claim the smart speakers work anyway.

        This would be different.

    • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      Doesn’t need to track you all the time to know exactly who you are and what you’re up to.

      Continuously monitoring is such a waste of their resources, they already know everything about you, they just need to check in now and then to make sure you’re buying the correct t-shirts.

    • Spendius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      And somehow, it automatically gets re-enabled in a next update. Urgh…

  • Kay Ohtie@pawb.socialEnglish
    5 hours

    Even if no one else could access it because it stayed on my device, I’m sure it’ll be used for categorizing “advertising cohort” stuff again.

    It sucks having to be so skeptical. With my severe ADHD something like this would be enormously helpful for remembering conversations others I talk to remember just fine but I don’t.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38 minutes

      Here’s the larger problem: other people will have this bullshit turned on and the microphones will receive the speech audio of everyone in their vicinity. It’s fully breaking consent to be recorded for others.

      I do not care what they might say about “listening only to the owner” or whatever they will claim. If it’s recording with a microphone, then it will receive sound.

    • fizzbang@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      Now turn it into a black mirror episode where the corporation controls your memories

      • Bustedknuckles@lemmy.worldEnglish
        48 minutes

        Can’t wait for the gaslighting marketing option. Google: “remember that you wanted to buy this?”

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    6 hours

    So what could be a really useful thing is now just a 24/7 surveilance device that will record everything, even when you have sex, when you talk about fantasies and so on.

    I guarantee you that in no time the justice department will be interested in having access to all that

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      Funny thing is I already thought of two angles that might make people willingly use that:

      1. Sex coaches review your recent experiences and give you advice (good or bad, just like other life advice fields).
      2. Proof of consent so neither party can change the story after the fact. Though the proof won’t be at a scientific rigor level so it won’t help as much as people will hope, though it probably will clear up some less complex cases and complicate the shit out of others.
  • c64z86@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7 hours

    This would be such a cool thing, too bad it will only be used to scrape our data in order to sell us more ads. There are far too many technologies and concepts that have been ruined already due to bloody greed.

    • sunbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      Hey, don’t be so pessimistic.

      For sure it will be available for government agencies to subpoena or even outright purchase.

      This is the free market. Everything about you is for sale.

      • tigermountain@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 hour

        I’m sure this current administration and some oligarchs have been, and are, doing everything in their power to know as much about each of us as possible. With AI and some Doge ‘behind the scenes’ work, a bad actor could say “I want to know everyone who shows even a slight bent to the left” so we can target them." Control and manipulation is the point. Everyone reading this is a target. And I’m sure I’ll be bumped up on their ‘people to be concerned about’ list after writing this.

    • meejle@piefed.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
      HELPING YOU REMEMBER YOUR IMPORTANT CONVERSATIONS