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Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will be sent to Amazon—starting today (techxplore.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered "agentic capabilities" and turn a profit from the popular devices.

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[–] groolthedemon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Just regularly tell it to go fuck itself and tell it to tell Jeff Bezos to fuck himself.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder what would happen if you recorded a few dozen phrases like that, and then had them play randomly for eternity into a few Alexa devices. Would Amazon ban you?

[–] groolthedemon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I was kind of thinking along those same lines, but what if millions of people did it.... Would it matter? Could a protest like that work or make Amazon see the error of their ways? I doubt it, but it would be fun nonetheless.

[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Alexa, fuck you bezos, you and your AI can eat a full bag of dicks.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Alternatively, don’t have one cos he doesn’t give a shit since you already paid him