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Didn't they lay off almost the entire Alexa research team in 2022? Lmao. I love how this story of incompetent management has another incompetent management storied embedded within.
It was never about profit it was always about getting people to voluntarily install Spyware devices in their homes. I'm sure the massive amounts of data they collected was the point
We live in such a bizarre time. A Bezos-like character couldn't have been a villain in an episode of the "Twilight Zone". Even the reality of that show - audiences of that era would have thought the character utterly ridiculous and the situation cartoony. How could an evil man even in the far off future of 2024 amass ~$2 billion (adjusted for inflation), have worker-serfs, spy on 10,000,000s of Americans, have a $50m toy - his yacht, etc.
It was about profit. The executives envisioned a future where everybody would use their Alexa devices to do all their shopping off Amazon
Some dumb shit where they probably all have personal shoppers and thought the proles would love an AI version of that
Amazon already has the data the devices could've collected thanks to Google and Meta