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Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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TL;DR Alexa will be cloud-only very soon because it'll be powered by an LLM, which is too big to run on a smart speaker.

While the reason you suggest might be a good one, the repercussions of this change are clearly large. Unknowing customers now have their voice recordings sent to the cloud whoch could be leaked, have law enforcement get a warrant to take it from Amazon, or for it to be abused directly by Amazon. Those are huge. They might just have a good scapegoat.

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Some people will say just about anything to blame the consumer. You know, like “it’s your own fault for buying a thing from a company.”

Yes! You knew this was coming, why didn't you buy something from any other huge monopolistic tech-cloud-everything-store?! Oh wait...

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Now would be a good time to have a functional FTC commissioner. Doing a bait and switch like on a product that was sold with a set of features should be illegal. If I buy a car and the sales guy stops by my house the next day to take back the wheels, it would rightfully be seen as ridiculous.

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>Yes but reputation is a factor. If you bought that car from wheel stealing jimmies wheel theft funded auto retailer you might need to shoulder some of the blame.

You think the same for food and medicine? remove the "evil" regulations and let the reputation be a factor and every individual should do their research ?

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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TL;DR Alexa will be cloud-only very soon because it'll be powered by an LLM, which is too big to run on a smart speaker.

and there is no way to prevent that update from taking effect even though you "own" (wink wink) the device.

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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TL;DR Alexa will be cloud-only very soon because it'll be powered by an LLM, which is too big to run on a smart speaker.

Doesn't alexa (or smart speaker) always need network to transfer voice data to server ?

I doubt they have ever ran machine learning model on those speakers. Mostly just some simple one like "hey alexa"

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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“Reputation” as a free market remedy is such a poor solution, though, as it lags behind the events that change it. A badly tuned PID loop is better than nothing, I guess.

Pardon my French, but fuck "free market" remedies. The actual "free market remedy" here should theoretically be a lawsuit. But, you and I both know that Amazon's TOS are locked down pretty hard to pre-empt this sort of thing. Even if they weren't, it would take either an individual with deep pockets to pursue such a suit, or it would have to be a class action. Except that neither of those would be likely to succeed, because there's no law that says once a company offers a feature or feature toggle that they have to continue to offer it for the life of the product. And, if there were, that, by definition, wouldn't be a "free market" solution.

The solution here is regulation.

Edit: I forgot to mention that a lawsuit would take years to resolve. Meanwhile, Amazon would continue to benefit from their unfair tactics.

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