Apple’s Siri AI assistant sends audio of sexual encounters, embarrassing medical information, drug deals, and other private moments recorded without users’ knowledge to human ‘graders’ for evaluation, a whistleblower has revealed.
Recordings from Apple’s Siri voice assistant are fed to human contractors around the world, who grade the AI based on the quality of its response and whether its activation was deliberate, according to an anonymous contractor who spoke to the Guardian. They claimed accidental activations are much more frequent than Apple lets on, especially with Apple Watch users – and wants the company to own up to the problem. […]
Siri isn’t the only voice assistant that transmits users’ private moments back to the mothership, of course – Amazon’s Alexa infamously has entire chat rooms for its human trainers to discuss difficult-to-understand audio clips (or mock funny recordings) and Google Home uses a similar system of outsourced “language experts” that allows the company to claim that no one at Google has access to the recordings its devices make.
h/t Larry (via BCF)
Pretty difficult to have any sympathy.
It’s like posting here on SDA: you just know that you’re being watched. 🙂
It may be past the point, where the first thing you do with a new phone, is remove the microphone and camera. Samsung, Apple, Huawei, … manufacturer no longer seems to matter.
I am going to place the bet right now; the so called “dumb” phones they sell, are still listening and watching. They just don’t tell you that there is still a camera, still an always on microphone, and still Siri, or Alexa, or whatever in there. It’s still looking for an open WIFI connection to phone home…
大哥大
dà gē dà in Chinese means cell phone, and literally translates as “big brother big”.
Ironic? Maybe not.
Not generally. That was only used for the big brick phones back in the day and isn’t used any more. Source: Chinese wife.
Just more confirmation to never get a bug, er, Apple Watch, Amazon or Google listening device in the home, let alone a “smart” tv. Ever. Scares the crap out of me, that my income is derived from an entity that has gone full Monty with Google. Our data is NOT secure………….
Sure, millenials are infatuated with all Tekkie stuff and seem to be more than willing to give up freedoms and privacy for simple convenience. Scary stuff really, the next leap will be trusting AI in its next phase of implementation, whatever that entails.
1984 isn’t that far away. There may very well be a time that it will be government edict forcing these spying devices into all homes. After all, it seems that Google has its true loyalties with the Chicoms, and not the US, and has fully embraced censorship and propaganda, Chiner style, for years. DOJ investigation anybody?
Why would anyone want these devices anyway?
It’s like people need to have the latest toy just like children.
Of course, Siri, Alexa, and all their ugly sisters never take the initiative to pass on any information useful to law enforcement. The right of drug dealers, child rapists and terrorists to privacy is sacred.
That’s a major reason I want Facebook, Google and Apple expropriated, not broken up—and their data sets handed over to America’s finest. Let’s see whose stinking asses the FAG firms have been covering in exchange for tax exemptions, and why.
The thought that my Apple i-phone sitting idle, switched-off, on the table next to me … is recording everything I scream back at my TV set … in a moment of private RESISTANCE to the idiot Demoncreeps and their media lapdogs … is unsettling.
If it weren’t for the text messages with my kids (I’ve never Fackebooked or Instagrammed, or anything else) … I’d go back to a flip-phone.
I know they are listening. I keep getting calls from Samsung complaining that I snore to loud. They think I’m kidding when I tell them it’s the dog.
At the moment, as it has always been, the only truly safe space is in your own thoughts.
This is the reason there will never be any legislation to control big tech. Law makers have no idea who has recorded their private moments.