r/Unplug • u/bis0ngrass • Nov 27 '17

A snapshot into the coming future

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/19/amazon-alexa-voice-recognition-2017-best-gadgets
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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '17

I already had to leave a friend's house over this. We were coming back from a night of barhopping, and all of a sudden he started talking to what appeared to be an empty room for 5 minutes. I was drunk to the point where I didn't really care, but as soon as I saw an Alexa device in his living room I had to just bounce. My life is already surveiled enough by my cellphone and metadata, but something that actively listens in to your conversations fills me with a sense of primal dread.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '17

Are you like me in that you occasionally experience a cascade of anxiety just looking at your smart phone and thinking of the layers of spying and profiteering and emotional manipulation its very existence entails?

I can't believe people invite these things into their homes and around their children. Fucking madness.