derefr 18 hours ago

For all of these reasons, audio snooping is much more likely to be something done by wired, stationary devices that maybe have a decent amount of RAM + a fair bit of usually-idle processing capacity (to run the transcription model locally and just push the resulting text), and which are expected to draw a decent amount of power and use the Internet at vaguely-arbitrary times.

Like a smart TV, for example.

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hammock 13 hours ago

It is 1000% being done by smart TVs. They listen even when you are not using the voice remote. And the data is used to target ads (anywhere)

milesrout 11 hours ago

Do you have any evidence?

hammock 10 hours ago

Yes of course. You can test it yourself

sroussey 14 hours ago

First thing I do is disable that feature on every TV I buy.

Second thing I do is block the TV access to internet after I do one firmware update.