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Your voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect, new research finds.
(news.northeastern.edu)
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025
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That handles automation, but can't freestyle questions.
"Hey Google, convert (metric) to (Imperial)."
"Hey Google, weather today?"
"Hey Google, what's the capital of Kakistan?"
I have a ceiling-mounted mini in almost every room and just toss questions around while I work or play. Or, just ask it to play music. (Which went to shit when I cancelled Spotify.)
I learned how to get Home assistant working JUST to restore this feature. Fuck you Google for not supporting other services despite supporting controlling them once it starts going ugh
It can if you use an LLM as the interface with guidelines instead of rules