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.

  • f34r@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    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.