Every vendor tripped over the third party affiliate human review issue.
While consumers remain surprised by affiliate clauses, the QC problem is considerably different from marketing against those recordings.
The linked article veers into Alexa for the ads part and says, roughly, must not be tin foil hats if everyone believes it – then explains the psychology misleading people in most cases. The "I'm noticing a pattern" thing…
Are there sources where Apple either acknowledges or even settles claims of advertising against secret Siri recordings?