alt Hacker NewsEnough with the knee jerk reactions. They have to record in some cases. You don't have to like those features, but plenty of people want those features.
- The television has voice control.
- The television has a manually triggered speech-to-text feature so you don't have to type with tv remote.
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GrinningFool • yesterday at 9:04 PM
You'd think if that was all they recorded for, they would be saying it very loudly to end the speculation that weasel-wording leads to.
beached_whale • yesterday at 10:55 PM
None of that requires recording and has been done with embedded hw with local software for years.
matheusmoreira • yesterday at 9:27 PM
> Enough with the knee jerk reactions.
No. Stop minimizing their abuse.
You simply do not say something like “we don’t record continuously” if the reality is that you only record when voice control or speech to text is active. Given the entire industry’s track record, the only sane thing to do when confronted with weasel wording is to assume the truth is the worst possible interpretation that isn’t a blatant lie, and even then, sometimes it is just a blatant lie.
Here’s some examples:
- We don’t record continuously -> We record nearly all the time, only stopping to upload the recording.
- We do not sell your data -> But we do “share” it.
- All your data is protected from unauthorized LLM scraping -> But we define all the big tech companies as authorized scraping.