Technology Amazon Alexa says, "the 2020 election was stolen by a massive amount of election fraud" Mark Frauenfelder
privacy "Edge AI": encapsulating machine learning classifiers in lightweight, energy-efficient, airgapped chips Cory Doctorow
privacy Like Amazon, Google sends voice assistant recordings to contractors for transcription, including recordings made inadvertently Cory Doctorow
google The army of contractor-linguists who power Google Assistant say they had their wages stolen Cory Doctorow
amazon New Amazon patent application reveals "solution" to missed Alexa instructions: always on recording Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon stores recordings of Alexa interactions and turns them over to internal staff and outside contractors for review Cory Doctorow
gender The Russian equivalent to Alexa is a "good girl" but not too friendly, and is totally OK with wife-beating Cory Doctorow
Copyfight EFF tells the Copyright Office: we don't know how to make voice assistants better, but here's how not to make them worse Cory Doctorow
AI Adversarial examples: attack can imperceptibly alter any sound (or silence), embedding speech that only voice-assistants will hear Cory Doctorow
videos Voice assistants can be hacked by commanding them with inaudible ultrasonic speech Cory Doctorow
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