Amazon Alexa May Detect Emotional and Physical States in the Future

This is going to workout well in the near-cyberpunk future!

 

Giving me ads is not being an assistant!

Fuck that shit.

 

That's one creepy nanny device

 

Oh boy...so..I'm in a bad mood, bored and Alexa will play a forking boring commercial and then I stab the Echo spybox with a fork, does Alexa play a silverware commercial?

 

I keep hearing those machines in Bioshock in my head.. This is one of those vending machines.

Alexa, Siri, Google. We are already owned.

 

Did someone say... vending machine?!



Bow down, meat slaves!!!

 

Who would want a spying device to their home to eavesdrop everything you do? Fuck THAT shit!

 

So far they can be disabled - and nobody forces you to use products that include them.

 

I have already scratched two friends off the list of homes I will go to because of these idiotic machines.

One day it will be telling someone, "You need to get laid!" and then tell you what services are available locally to get that done. It is getting to where people will not be able to take a poop without some machine telling them to do so. Sad.

 

Funny thing is they pay for the privilege. I got a free echo dot offer when I got my pixel 2XL and never redeemed it.

 

I call BS on all this. I've not found one of these speech recognition devices that work correctly unless there is low noise in the back ground and you slow down and change your speech pattern so it can understand what you are saying. That being the case how is it going to recognize subtle cues that denote your emotional state. I've never found one that works like the commercial ads show; that you are walking through the room and just rattle something off in passing and it understands you. Now if it is keying off certain phrases like "I'm board, entertain me." ; how is that worth noting?

 

I read somewhere that 23% of US households have one or more of this type of gizmo so apparently, a lot.

So if Alexa detects that you have a cold and recommends chicken soup and you come down with pneumonia, will Siri recommend a malpractice lawyer?

 

Do you carry a smartphone?....because I have a bridge to sell you

 

If you're right and get angry does it threaten to close your amazon account? If you're left and get angry does it blame someone for you?

 

Naw it will just auto order you one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Lubes-Natural-Water-Based-Lubricant/dp/B005MR3IVO?th=1

 

No, I don't. I have a dumb flip phone which cannot do SMS, has no GPS locator in it, no data support.....very old. All it can do is make phone calls.

Oh, and no thank you on the bridge. You need to find one of those "smart" phone folks who are too busy looking at their phone to pass that scam off.

 

It still has a microphone and an antenna...They could be listening and tracking you.

 

Tracking would require triangulating the phone signal. Could be done, but a lot of hassle compared to how easy it is to find any given smart phone today. As far as mic access goes, back when this phone was made I am fairly sure there was no remote controls for that. Everything I can find about the phone suggests that it has no controls for remote access. Pretty sure first generation digital phones are all that way. That was before iOS or Android existed.

 

if i had an alexa, it would get bored quickly repeating the same phrase back to me over and over..

"im sorry, i dont have the ability to go F myself.. please restate your request"

 

Yea, no shit. But people buy them based on the ads of controlling lights / music and asking questions a 2nd grader would know the answer to, not to be served advertising. But the rest of us saw through the veil anyway. They couldn't even pay me to have one of those things.

We don't even have the dumb network support that such a phone would even work on anymore.

The rumour is that if you say it 101 times the device will go dark and not respond, 4 hours later an amazon delivery will come and the guy will shout out "hey alexa! It's amazon!" then alexa will say "open the package and slap me with that dildo I just ordered".

 

That was preposterous. Who buys dildos online?

 

Hm, I though even the old phones had remove voice activation

 

LOL.. thats ALMOST worth putting to a test for the sheer LOL of it.. ALMOST

 

"They could be" is a hell of a lot different to "They are". Anyone who values privacy even one bit would never install a device that's designed to listen and record every sound you make, to their home. Most people are idiots, which is why so many have adopted this 'tool'. Smart device users are the new cattle of big data.

 

don't want to buy an alexa, must be a thought criminal

 

The older phones are harder but not impossible to activate a mic remotely...unless of course you happen to have one of the phones with a vulnerability in the firmware

 

Used to work at an international telecom. Seen it happen, though not entirely sure how as I was pretty green at the time. These companies are not to be trusted. What google has and does is much, much more dangerous imho. Largest botnet in the world