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Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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If they haven't fixed it in 6 months, I'd say it's fair game to scrape as much as you can.

I know this is a joke but it's still a felony, for your own sake don't do this.

Serious question: how is it a felony?

Distributing it might count as copyright piracy, but merely downloading public data?

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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post #60

I saw an YouTuber the other day sharing their "day in the life" as an Amazon Software Engineer while promoting (as part of a paid sponsorship) the AI note taking feature of SoundCore headphones, claiming they now record their meetings and receive an AI summary at the end. I wonder how many companies realise these devices that appear as "headsets" are now funnelling their meetings into these new AI companies who are m…

I remember while at Amazon, during the "everyone needs to be using AI in every way" push, one of my teammates was proud to present that he had figured out how to split the audio on his mac to record the meeting (because our meeting software didn't allow for recordings without consent) and fed this into speech-to-text and generated summaries of the meetings without any of us knowing (i.e. no consent).

I let him and our manager know that he'd just violated eavesdropping laws across state lines (he's in D.C. and I'm in WA; RCW 9.73.030).

It's amazing how many people don't think that "AI Notetaker" is the same as "I secretly recorded this (as possibly violated the law)"

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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I know this is a joke but it's still a felony, for your own sake don't do this.

Serious question: how is it a felony? Distributing it might count as copyright piracy, but merely downloading public data?

Just because company failed to limit access does not mean it is public data. Just like stuff not being screwed or glued down doesn't mean you are free to take it.

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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Thank you, great question! Hard one to answer, thought about it a lot and it's going to be the diarisation of more than 5+ speakers per audio stream (your microphone + system audio for a max of 10). I actually spent a lot of time that went completely nowhere trying to fine tune my own diarisation model, it was fun to a degree but painful to see my output end up worse than what I currently had after days of work. Havi…

Since the participants are known and limited, have you tried building around samples tagged with user/person names?

I tried something similar by putting together a "global ledger" of speaker identities. This was more happening during the call than having a predefined one but I just couldn't get it to work properly. The issue being that as soon as some speech gets assigned to a new label or an incorrect one, everything ends up getting misaligned and gets messy quickly.

I might take another look into doing it in a different way that gradually builds up from successful calls, I just need to think of how to do this in a simple(ish) way for non-technical users and a way that still works well enough on low to mid tier laptops.

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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I'm definitely biased as the developer, but maybe try https://whistle-enterprise.com and see how it works for you. It's a hard problem I've been working away on for a while now. It's far from perfect but every step brings it a bit closer.

Literally starting my monday weekly standup now, I'll run it and see what's up. Thanks!

Thank you! Feel free to drop me and email (info in bio or on the website) if you run into any issues or have any suggestions.

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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post #8

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If they haven't fixed it in 6 months, I'd say it's fair game to scrape as much as you can.

I know this is a joke but it's still a felony, for your own sake don't do this.

the prison time might be the best part of reading through 180k meeting transcripts

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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My biggest worry is the small talk that you casually have in meetings. Comments about your pattern of life, family, locations, friends and health. Slurping all that up over 100s of meetings is concerning. Stored raw transcripts of meetings is a huge liability. Should redact small talk and only store useful extracts.

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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He has been emailing the CEO for six months with no replies. This is has also been posted here before with not a single pip or comment ... :-) And these customers absolute lack of technical due diligence, on this nth example, of move fast and break things...makes them deserve what they are getting.

> And these customers absolute lack of technical due diligence, on this nth example, of move fast and break things...makes them deserve what they are getting. That’s a garbage take. These customers didn’t move fast or break things. They trusted a company that made a promise and that company let them down.

I totally trusted this vendor selling me this snake oil, and he promised me it would work. I can't believe he let me down. This is all his fault.
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