The privacy issues with this and the inevitable data leaks and blackmail potential is staggering.
Please consider whether you should publish something instead of just whether you can.
Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
It makes you wonder what the legal implications are of owning an Amazon, Google or Apple device with a voice assistant turned on in one of these jurisdictions.
Voice assistants have a wake word. There is low power circuitry that is running locally listening for a specific series of syllables and a buffer of a second or two of audio. Once that wake word circuit detects that series of syllables, then it activates the rest of the device and starts streaming the buffer and current audio into whatever systems it has for transcription (or cloud). In many cases, this happens local…
Thanks for the detailed reply.
I guess if it a device is transcribing audio data from a buffer it’s not the same as a recording. Still I remember Apple was using some humans to review recordings:
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-29...
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#63I hope for the privacy focused among of us, that this fails.
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#64Although people here are focusing on the conversation part (understandably, as it is part of its marketing), I also find the voice memo part interesting, especially for situations where you are working with both your hands but need to remember something. E.g., while driving, doing carpentry, working in a fume hood, and so on
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#65Omni (necklace)
+2 Charisma +1 Intelligence
A necklace with a helpful spirit living inside a silicon crystal. The spirit grows with every word it hears.
"First you wear it, then it wears you"
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#66Genuinely curious if people think this is a product, solving a real problem? My mind goes to critical privacy rights and would likely require offline use?
> Genuinely curious if people think this is a product, solving a real problem? For people with memory issues, products like this can be life changing. On a second note, imagine a world where everyone has perfect memory recall. The concept of "recording" someone is useless, as everyone around a conversation (e.g. sitting at the next table at a cafe) would be a 100% reliable witness to the conversation. Obviously we wo…
> imagine a world where everyone has perfect memory recall
This describes the plot of a Black Mirror episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050 (S1 E3)
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also illegal in Belgium, and presumably many other European countries, without prior notification. Spying on people is not cool.
One person's spying is another person's whistleblowing. For example, a commonly-held view online is that it should be legal to record interactions with police. By your definition, however, that would be "spying", as the police may not necessarily consent.
Come now, it's obvious that sometimes exceptional circumstances warrant the bending or breaking of the rules.
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#68Makes me want a wearable white noise generator, except it's specifically tuned to jam speech transcription AI.
Seriously. It's bad enough sometimes that you go to friends house and have an Alexa responding to every half word. Now we have to put up with this?
For what actual gain? What percentage of a normal friendly conversation is something you want to actually review and document. Less than 5%?
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Genuinely curious if people think this is a product, solving a real problem? For people with memory issues, products like this can be life changing. On a second note, imagine a world where everyone has perfect memory recall. The concept of "recording" someone is useless, as everyone around a conversation (e.g. sitting at the next table at a cafe) would be a 100% reliable witness to the conversation. Obviously we wo…
> imagine a world where everyone has perfect memory recall This describes the plot of a Black Mirror episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050 (S1 E3)
That plot goes quite a bit further.
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#70Don’t wear one of these near me. I don’t want you recording our everyday conversations as a matter of habit. Ask permission first.
What about an autistic person if they could use it for real-time high level cues on the primary emotion being conveyed? When my son was growing up there were times I wish he didn’t have to struggle or guess as much.
This! LLMs have a lot of potential to fill the "support person" role for high-functioning autistics.