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

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Post by imoreno »

protocolture wrote: post #4
DevX101 wrote: post #3

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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It doesn't sound like a good idea to blame the victim more if the offender is a repeat offender. If anything repeat offenders should be treated harsher.

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

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Post by imoreno »

DevX101 wrote: post #3

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.

Don't these usually come with ToS or something that has you agreeing that they can change the service any time?

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

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Post by timwis »

I switched to Home Assistant a couple months ago (because I didn't like the idea of my voice being sent to amazon constantly) and haven't looked back! Soo much more you can do (including immediately using an LLM, if you like, whether in the cloud or local), and so much more control.

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

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Post by yaur »

imoreno wrote: post #22
DevX101 wrote: post #3

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.

Don't these usually come with ToS or something that has you agreeing that they can change the service any time?

When you buy a car there is a lot of required paperwork that they don't really give you time to read, so maybe.

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

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Post by Taek »

imoreno wrote: post #22
DevX101 wrote: post #3

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.

Don't these usually come with ToS or something that has you agreeing that they can change the service any time?

ToS have limits, people in a practical sense aren't really able to read and understand the ToS of every product they buy, which means a ToS can only go so far in the ways it allows companies to be predatory against consumers.

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

Legend2440 wrote: post #8

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.

That doesn't explain anything. LLMs use text as input. This feature already transcribes locally and sends text to the cloud.

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

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Post by briandear »

yaur wrote: post #24
imoreno wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't these usually come with ToS or something that has you agreeing that they can change the service any time?

When you buy a car there is a lot of required paperwork that they don't really give you time to read, so maybe.

That’s generally loan paperwork. And you can take all the time you want to read.
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