It’s all to help train their AI LLM system by capturing data on real conversations happening everywhere (probably because they have eaten up all the internet text and books) under the guise of being a personal assistant tied to Amazon to help you be more productive.

Amazon spent years putting microphones in our homes and apparently decided the real problem was that we occasionally leave the house. Now you can pay $75 plus $12 a month to turn every conversation into a potential shopping reminder. The future of privacy is apparently a subscription you forgot to cancel.

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[…] OpenAI is developing a screen-less smart speaker engineered by famed Apple designer Jony Ive.

Does anyone actually think that Jony Ive is a good designer? His style has always been very dystopian and soulless to me. I guess that fits with OpenAI’s new marketing approach, though.

Well, in Europe this could be a condition for rapists to temporarily leave jail. At the end of their sentence.

Happy with my pebble time 2 that does this uninterrupted for three weeks

We always used to tell the tale of that broken TV set, where your door bell rings right in the next second, and the Am*zon delivery guy already brings a new one.

But now the guy doesn’t even need to ring the bell anymore…

we need apps that detect these fucking things

and one day apps that destroy these things!

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And millions will buy it…because “tech!”