Easy fix:
Follow-up fix: get home assistant and recreate this yourself with a $15 device
Can I replace AppleHome with this stuff?
It’s fun and I recommend it, but I’m hesitant to say you can ‘replace’ your existing systems with it. You’ll probably mostly be able do what you want to do, but we’re still in the enthusiast stage and there’s going to be annoyances and frustrations. Home assistant is also one of the easier things to setup as far as self hosting goes, but you’re going to pick up some skills on the path to getting it working.
I’m pretty sure Amazon got this idea from Black Mirror’s latest season
Alexa already periodically makes “suggestions” that are annoying to disable if you misspeak.
Counting down until it starts demanding credit cards in order to function. Maybe as a form of “identity check”, as that’s been a popular excuse to collect payment information.
Pretty much why we unplugged all of ours. I just need to set a timer, don’t tell me extra shit!
*Amazon testing public backlash before shoving ads into your conversations with Alexa+
FTFY
“brought to you by Carls Jr.”
Fuck you! I’m eating!!
Now introducing Alexa Luxe
It won’t be long until the LLMs are trained with for ad-RAG
While each conversation happens a second model will scan it, send the contents to a vector search, return as embedding and a score, then give those outputs silently to the conversing model.
You do need to train/fine tune the model to not mention that it received the ad and subtly push it.
Actually, now that I think about it, you don’t even need to tell the model about the ad, you just weight some of the input tokens with the ad embedding and it naturally biases towards talking about that brand.
Got 8 Google Minis around the house, mostly ceiling mount. First ad that comes out that bitches mouth, I’m taking a 12-gauge to every motherfucking one of them, patch the roof later.
Duh. This is the AI wet dream. Ads won’t have discrete patterns that can be filtered. The LLM will deliver content specific garbage as if it were a genuine answer to a query. It will just bias towards ads and deliver the ad Ina different personalized manner each time. For as much as everyone likes to bitch about AI. This may be the golden age. It probably just gets worse from here.
Musk on the other hand already experiments on adding ideology and use such bots (makes as regular users) on social media.
Good, make it as terrible as possible.
You’re still using Alexa? Unplugged our listening er pod device about a week after we got it.
Same, I got Alexa (the first one with a good speaker) when attended a sales event of another company. I set it up, but after seeing its network activity even when no one was home I shut it down and didn’t use it again.
I don’t understand why people don’t feel weirded out by having an always on listening device.
Yup, scares the heck out of me. Guess other don’t agree. I am getting downvoted.
Likely b/c your comment reads like you are stating OP is using it when you probably meant a more general public “you”? That’d be my guess. I think most, if not all, here would agree to not ever use alexa, that bitch.
Just the messenger, dude.
Now I’m going to refuse to purchase one even harder!
I was saving up for one. Nvm lol
So, South park?
All natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of mount Nicaragua !
They’re already making suggestions. Got one this morning telling me I can ask it for updates on Amazon packages.
Speaking of which, anyone have any suggestions for better smart speakers?
I’m not really a smart speaker kind of guy but HomePods are nice, sound quality is pretty good
Mine isn’t. Do you use the full size, or the mini?
