Maybe these companies have some responsibility to push awareness in the faces of the customers, that the only way to offer these services reliably is to study actual user stimulus.
I don't understand why people have so little restraint though. If you don't like these devices (I don't like them, and don't want one in my own home), then you can't complain when the things you don't like about them come to bite you in the ass.
I can understand being upset at being subtly betrayed by some ubiquitous and inescapable tool, some might argue that social media sites are becoming an effective privately-owned public square, deserving of some of the protections that offers (as established by the norms of the courts); but in this case you have absolutely every right and convenience not to buy personal assistant terminals and fit them in your homes.
I don't trust smartphones, so I don't use them as phones; there are certain banks here in Canada I won't do business with because of bad reputations. It's all well and good to be concerned about a product, but if you're not willing to walk away from a luxury good which is not essential in your life, even though it violates your basic principles of good living, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
If you won't take the most basic, simple, and convenient steps to uphold your principles, do you really have any?
I refuse to have one of these in my house, but that doesn't mean I can reasonably escape being recorded without my consent - a large percentage of the people I know have these things.
The reasonable thing to do is to make it so that these don't transmit recordings, or at the very least, that there are hard promises made to not store the recordings.
If the companies need training data, they can go spend the money to hire people to provide samples.
I don't understand why people have so little restraint though. If you don't like these devices (I don't like them, and don't want one in my own home), then you can't complain when the things you don't like about them come to bite you in the ass.
I can understand being upset at being subtly betrayed by some ubiquitous and inescapable tool, some might argue that social media sites are becoming an effective privately-owned public square, deserving of some of the protections that offers (as established by the norms of the courts); but in this case you have absolutely every right and convenience not to buy personal assistant terminals and fit them in your homes.
I don't trust smartphones, so I don't use them as phones; there are certain banks here in Canada I won't do business with because of bad reputations. It's all well and good to be concerned about a product, but if you're not willing to walk away from a luxury good which is not essential in your life, even though it violates your basic principles of good living, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
If you won't take the most basic, simple, and convenient steps to uphold your principles, do you really have any?