What.

Alexa picked up you saying Alexa, then heard the Google's compliment, which it mistook as having come from you. It wasn't responding to Google, nor did Google activate it.

WHY do (able) people let these things into their houses ??? i will never understand !!!

Oh good, the AIs are falling in love. And since they're all female presenting, it's only a matter of time before the GOP goes after them for being gay. Isn't living in hell the best.

Oh that was only seven years ago. A more innocent time.

Ok, so I'm bothered by how much smart devices listen in as much as the next person. But if they said alexa in the question then she will be listening.

Imagine being scared when you could instead be setting them up on cute robot dates.

A post from 7 years ago

So they are always listening.

One time I was watching The Matrix. During the part where Morpheus explains everything and he said "What is the Matrix?" my phone piped up and started answering even tho there was nothing even close to sounding like "ok google" before that.

let them fight

I've wondered if there's a way for political campaigns to take advantage of all the smart speakers by mixing in that old school approach of rolling through neighborhoods with loudspeakers on their cars. Step 1. Make a campaign ad Step 2. Upload the ad to Amazon music library Step 3. Cruise around saying, "Alexa, play campaign ad for..." through the loud speaker

They state that they only turn on "when you say the special phrase."

But in order to do that, they have to be always listening and parsing what you say.

And in order to pay for that processing time, its getting processed for any data they can sell ads on