We use a similar tool at work and it's automatically invited to every meeting. It records, transcribes, and lets you search for something somebody said and when. It is incredibly unsettling.
Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open
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#182I 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…
Not trying to be rude or mean here but it should be, "a YouTuber" since YouTuber starts with a consonant sound.
he recorded his comment with an AI service :shrug:
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#183The worst thing is that there is nothing technical preventing this kind of service from running fully local. All the audio is already being routed to any participant and transcription models are lightweight enough and can run in virtually any computer.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
It’s not public data. Just because it is unintentionally publicly available does not make it public data, except in the strictest, most pedantic interpretation (that would never hold up in front of a judge).
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#185I love the fact that, if the emails listed in the post are correct, bob didn't even try to be professional with formatting or capitalization or anything. That shows how much power this man had in this situation lol
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#186Heh, interesting. I literally just vibe-coded an app tonight that takes a meeting recording, runs it through whisper to generate the text, then through your local codex gives you a summary and creates actions that are pushable to either github (technical) or PM tool (project level) Takes about 7 minutes for a 2 hour meeting on my 3080 GPU so well within useful timeframe. I did it because i didn't want to pay £7 a mon…
Why not just pay attention in the meetings you are paid to attend?
I just did this - i took notes by hand during a meeting, but also took the AI summary and compared the two. I did miss one item. My hand notes were far better though.
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#187> I wanted to say something so badly. "Hey, you might want server-side validation too." But this was a proof of concept, not a consultation.
oh man, imagine telling them "you don't want people like me breaking into your app! Just look at how I got into this call!"
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Serious question: how is it a felony? Distributing it might count as copyright piracy, but merely downloading public data?
The federal government outlaws "knowingly accessing a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access" to obtain information from any "protected computer" (which, in this context, means any computer involved in interstate commerce - which, in practice, has been ruled such that it certainly includes any Internet-connected server of a corporation). Your defense would have to be that you were authorized to…
I suppose you might be able to argue that everyone is authorized to view the data if they made no attempt whatsoever to prevent you from doing so.
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#189> He responded within minutes: "thank you! can you report it to our CTO and we will look at it immediately?" Why could he not speak to HIS ceo himself instead of asking Bob to
> Why could he not speak to HIS ceo himself instead of asking Bob to
You can't expect a founder/CEO to spend 2 minutes relaying an email with critical security information to his own CTO, he's surely way too busy disrupting and pivoting and doubling down on product market fit.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I know this is hn and not a product development meeting, but:
If you’re targeting data for people to use on the same call then requires more intense work, while if you’re targeting data for people to use after or on an ongoing basis (eg an established business meeting with staff/vendors/etc) then having a predefined one seems good. Same interface as a CRM: picture, some audio clips for users to choose from, and confidence scores on each section of the recording for cases where people sound similar or are talking over each other. Over time the diarization gets better as users accept/reject/tag samples and that work helps them feel more aligned with the tool.