I’ve recently been using follow-up on #Alexa reminders, and I am discovering there’s a large window (at least 15 minutes) where you can cancel the reminder and still get one last notification anyway.
#Alexa got connected to #ChatGPT, and started responding to people with disinformation. #VoiceAssistants are #interfaces, and they have the power to amplify what data sources they are interfaced with.
Who controls what information is presented by a voice assistant? Who is liable for misinformation?
@KathyReid@bignose This is simple: Everyone who has ever bought an #Alexa misinformation system and supported its "success" is liable, and of course, everyone who spreads the information obtained from their "new device" is liable for spreading this information without checking.
#Amazon’s #Alexa has been claiming the #2020election was stolen
The popular voice assistant says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the tool as a #reliable#election news source -- foreshadowing a new #information battleground
Amid concerns the rise of #ArtificialIntelligence will supercharge the spread of #misinformation comes a wild fabrication from a more prosaic source: #Amazon’s Alexa, which declared that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Asked about #fraud in the race — in which President #Biden defeated Donald #Trump w/ 306 electoral college votes — #Alexa says it was “stolen by a massive amount of election fraud,” citing #Rumble, a video streaming service favored by #conservatives.
Tech like cryptocurrency (blockchains) and AI for example are from a nerd perspective super interesting but from an ethical perspective it's just terrible..
The blockchain is mostly mis-used in so many ways and AI is stealing our work left and right while feeding it back to us
Personally I stay faaar away from these subjects even though they are interesting, I want to learn stuff on my own and not with an "AI assistance" that maybe can replace me in the future
@stux
This makes me somehow thinking about "smart homes". People buy(!) the surveillance devices to give out all their datas for free. 🤔 #Alexa#Siri#Smartphones#cameras#NewCars#smarthouse making their lives "easier" but apparently more dependent.
And the point in this case is dependency - and paying for it.
#Amazon 👉 apoya tus tiendas locales #Alexa 👉 Dicio o Mycroft #Appstore 👉 Aurora Store o Neo Store #Luna 👉 Parsec o Steam Remote Play #Music 👉 Nuclear, ViMusic o Spotube #AmazonPay 👉 PayPal, Wise... #PrimeVideo y #FireOS 👉 Jellyfin con WebOS #Twitch 👉 Kick o DLive #Ring 👉 lo integrado con Home Assistant #Kindle 👉 Kobo y Calibre #AWS 👉 Oracle o IMB Cloud #Drive 👉 Nextcloud o Cryptpad
Once Alexa is updated with the new LLM support I am going to try it out with my Echo Buds. I pre-ordered this product when it was announced so I got them with a discount which was a no-brainer for me. Back when I worked on Echo Frames for the 1st gen it was helpful to simply make requests of Alexa on the go, but the functionality was so limited. That is going to change very soon, finally.
The update is an LLM that is optimized for Alexa so it will differ from ChatGPT. A very important difference is ChatGPT was trained with data and is now 2 years out of date. If I want to ask about a restaurant in my area Alexa will ideally know of restaurants which have opened or closed recently. If it is able to adapt to menu changes that would be incredibly useful.
#news thoughts on #amazon#hardware#alexa#tech announcements ~ these don't always move the needle for me ~ i never had a reason to use alexa, but all that may have changed...