The three biggest players in voice assistants –– Google, Apple and Amazon –– have radically different approaches to profiling users, Northeastern University researchers say.
It’s not surprising. Most of Google’s profiling is though the web. They don’t bother with the speakers and stuff too much because they don’t need to.
It’s not very useful anyway, any number of people could be using the speaker, regardless of who is signed in
So even the most sophisticated profiling is wrong a significant part of the time.
Great. Glad its been so worth it to scoop up all my data and leak it everywhere just to not know how to use it for your stated intended purpose.
I use Home assistant with the Preview box for local control, so I can spy on myself.
Have you ever caught yourself doing anything suspicious?
This incident will be reported
I loved my Google Home when I got it in 2017, but when I got into home automation, I realized it is dumb to have to tell a device to do things. Motion sensors basically replace the main thing Google Home does and a Bluetooth speaker is cheap to buy.
I never trusted that they weren’t listening to me all the time with the speakers and I never looked back after I donated them away.
Yeah, just having a microphone in the house with some predefined voice controls which you can go and change gives you all of the benefits of a Google home with none of the Google bullshit.
Especially now with LLMs getting so big, just go set up voice-to-text ollama session with predefined prompts and responses
These devices are almost always listening, and the companies behind them are already collecting our data.
Uh oh! Clicks scary link
The good news is, they aren’t recording all the time … and when they are activated accidentally, the recordings are typically short.
:/ alrightythen
So what it’s saying is that it doesn’t need 24/7 recordings to profile us in a way that’s profitable for them because we are some basic bitches, right.
Just pointing out clickbait. They don’t even accurately reference their own articles. I stopped reading after that.
