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> these smart speakers only phone home when you say the keyword, right?

Without it being open source, there's no guarantee though?

You can get a pretty good idea from power usage, storage, and internet usage. Unless there's multiple hidden revolutionary breakthroughs in speech transcription or compression, nothing unsavory is happening at scale.

...most didn't know about the Intel ME chip. A designated onboard black-box chip for transcriptions, that doesn't rely on an a server, would seriously benefit tech corps

Would it really be the first time we were lied to/surveilled?

When will we stop giving the hyper-growth oriented Silicon Valley startup world the benefit of the doubt?

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