Recent reports that digital voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa are listening more often than people realize, and recorded snippets of conversations are sometimes reviewed by humans, have people once again worried about their privacy. Here's what to know.
San Francisco Digital voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa have become household staples. But recent reports that they're listening more often than people realize, and recording snippets of conversations that are sometimes reviewed by humans, have people once again worried about their privacy.
In the wake of the recent backlash, Amazon is changing its settings so people can opt out of having their voice recordings reviewed by humans. Amazon and other companies including Google and Apple record each exchange between people and their digital voice assistants in order to gauge how well the systems fulfill commands. The recordings help companies improve how well their artificial intelligence understands language.
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