anticloud "Edge AI": encapsulating machine learning classifiers in lightweight, energy-efficient, airgapped chips Cory Doctorow
i can let you do that dave Rhasspy: a free/open voice assistant toolkit that's fully offline Cory Doctorow
google home Like Amazon, Google sends voice assistant recordings to contractors for transcription, including recordings made inadvertently Cory Doctorow
tvcs The army of contractor-linguists who power Google Assistant say they had their wages stolen Cory Doctorow
bugged by design New Amazon patent application reveals "solution" to missed Alexa instructions: always on recording Cory Doctorow
voice assistants Amazon stores recordings of Alexa interactions and turns them over to internal staff and outside contractors for review Cory Doctorow
The Russian equivalent to Alexa is a "good girl" but not too friendly, and is totally OK with wife-beating Cory Doctorow
apple homepod 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
Adversarial examples: attack can imperceptibly alter any sound (or silence), embedding speech that only voice-assistants will hear Cory Doctorow
