Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
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Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
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Re: Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
#2This falls into the category of:
I bugged my house... NOW MY HOUSE IS BUGGED!
Not to dismiss the value of the news here, it is important for folks to know, but the overall situation is both concerning, and amusing.
Re: Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
#3"The man, who wants to remain anonymous, works for an international company hired by Google. "
So not a Google employee at all, a probably low paid contractor who is in possession of thousands of audio files. Your privacy matters, except when the bottom line is involved.
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#4"What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching."
Re: Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
#5Stop putting these things in your house folks!
Re: Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
#6"What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching."
I think Frank Herbert hit it a bit more on the nose:
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
Frank captures the motivation, the fact that it is desirable is the scary part.
Akin to the genetic engineering scene from Gattaca.
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#7The biggest issue IMHO is how the average consumer has been deceived into the belief that current AI is pure AI, when in reality a lot of humans are looking at your pictures, listening to your recordings, crawling through your inbox and analyzing your browsing/purchasing/streaming history, right now: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/trained_a_neural_net.png
Re: Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
#8This falls into the category of: I bugged my house... NOW MY HOUSE IS BUGGED! Not to dismiss the value of the news here, it is important for folks to know, but the overall situation is both concerning, and amusing.
Most people assume that the system is entirely automated, and that their commands will be processed by mere computers, not listened to by actual people who might even be their own neighbours.
Re: Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
#9"The man, who wants to remain anonymous, works for an international company hired by Google. " So not a Google employee at all, a probably low paid contractor who is in possession of thousands of audio files. Your privacy matters, except when the bottom line is involved.
Sounds like he was a Turker: "For each fragment that he listens, he will receive a few cents."
Re: Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
#10"The man, who wants to remain anonymous, works for an international company hired by Google. " So not a Google employee at all, a probably low paid contractor who is in possession of thousands of audio files. Your privacy matters, except when the bottom line is involved.
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