Comment on Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI

• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You trust that?

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  • EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Considering I set up one of the content types that relates to wakeword and utterance text analysis for Alexa, I trust it completely.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But can I trust you? Are you willing to share the source code?

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      • EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re right to be distrustful, but there’s a fine line between a healthy distrust of a closed ecosystem and blind worry/cynicism.

        Obviously I’m not going to share proprietary source code. Even if I did, it would mean very little without knowing the upstream and downstream services. What I will say is that Amazon is at least honest about what it’s services do, even if it’s in the fine print. Customers are able to delete their data when they choose to, and if they do, there are serious (internal) consequences when stuff like data deletion and DSAR aren’t followed.

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  • Xel@mujico.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s this study for those interested in knowing more about how often these devices mistakenly record conversations:

    …northeastern.edu/…/smart-speakers-study-pets20/

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