Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will be sent to Amazon—starting today

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Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered "agentic capabilities" and turn a profit from the popular devices.

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Did anyone else assume this from start ?
- Yeah, I thought it was always listening and tailoring ads and stuff. I don't understand why people are so trusting of these voice assistants. I'm probably paranoid, but I even keep the mic turned off on my phone at all times.
How about things you say near an Alexa smart speaker?
- It's the same picture.
They doing it starting now? And not since the Alexa?
- They are removing the "process recordings locally" option, which 0.03% of users had enabled. Not much of a change.
Just regularly tell it to go fuck itself and tell it to tell Jeff Bezos to fuck himself.
- I wonder what would happen if you recorded a few dozen phrases like that, and then had them play randomly for eternity into a few Alexa devices. Would Amazon ban you?
  
  I was kind of thinking along those same lines, but what if millions of people did it.... Would it matter? Could a protest like that work or make Amazon see the error of their ways? I doubt it, but it would be fun nonetheless.
- Alexa, fuck you bezos, you and your AI can eat a full bag of dicks.
- Alternatively, don’t have one cos he doesn’t give a shit since you already paid him
What makes you think this wasn’t the case the whole time? Try speaking with it off-line. There is no off-line. Don’t be naive.

…Good thing though, is that nobody cares about your data except you. It’s being sent over purely because of the compute resources required.
So should I stop telling my Alexa all the hypothetical ways I would kill Jeff Bezos then?
will ?

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