• AeroLemming@lemm.eedeleted by creator
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    3 years ago

    Real answer: they are always listening, but they are supposed to use a separate bit of code to listen for activation keywords that can run locally, so they aren’t just constantly streaming audio data to someone’s servers. In reality, there are plenty of false positives and you never know if it’s listening or not.

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      they are always listening, but they are supposed to use a separate bit of code to listen for activation keywords that can run locally,

      No, that’s bullshit, they’re always listening for information about what ads to target to you.

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        3 years ago

        Do you have a source? That’s a bold claim and is something that would be easily detectable with a signal sniffer if it were true.