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Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What the fuck is Alexa+ 🤣🤣🤣

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[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

After AI became a thing, Amazon decided you needed to pay a subscribtion to use Alexa with an LLM instead of the basic keyword recognition model

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[–] frunch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Sounds like another case of Amazon trying to out-Amazon itself

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[–] weew@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago

Well someone's gotta pay for that small country's worth of wasted electricity

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[–] kratoz29@lemmy.zip 1 point 8 months ago

I mean, if it becomes less dumb while listening to you I'm in lol

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