Easy fix:

What the fuck is Alexa+ 🤣🤣🤣

Alexa already periodically makes "suggestions" that are annoying to disable if you misspeak.

Counting down until it starts demanding credit cards in order to function. Maybe as a form of "identity check", as that's been a popular excuse to collect payment information.

Their users will accept this.

I’m pretty sure Amazon got this idea from Black Mirror’s latest season

Like always, Black Mirror has an episode on this.

*Amazon testing public backlash before shoving ads into your conversations with Alexa+

FTFY

Got 8 Google Minis around the house, mostly ceiling mount. First ad that comes out that bitches mouth, I'm taking a 12-gauge to every motherfucking one of them, patch the roof later.

Alexa has ads since the beginning and I can’t imagine that would change just because they are replacing the backend with AI. The first time Echo wasted my time trying to selling me something in my own home was also the last time. I don’t understand how anyone can be okay with that.

Duh. This is the AI wet dream. Ads won't have discrete patterns that can be filtered. The LLM will deliver content specific garbage as if it were a genuine answer to a query. It will just bias towards ads and deliver the ad Ina different personalized manner each time. For as much as everyone likes to bitch about AI. This may be the golden age. It probably just gets worse from here.

I bought an Alexa echo long before I actually cared about privacy and I regret it a lot. It's been a pricey paper weight since then. I wish I could flash some kind of OS and use it as a sound bar or something. I can't even use the Bluetooth without signing in with amazon account, which requires a lot of data including phone number.

It won’t be long until the LLMs are trained with for ad-RAG

While each conversation happens a second model will scan it, send the contents to a vector search, return as embedding and a score, then give those outputs silently to the conversing model.

You do need to train/fine tune the model to not mention that it received the ad and subtly push it.

I’m amazed it didn't already as someone who has never used or heard one being used. What’s the business model? Just the data harvesting for purpose of their other businesses?

"brought to you by Carls Jr."

Anyone see the newest Black Mirror season?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_%28Black_Mirror%29

I can't even stand when my Google assistant says more than three words to respond 😂 if I start hearing ads out of that thing I will get rid of it faster than anything I've ever done

Now introducing Alexa Luxe

As if I was ever stupid enough to use Alexa.

They already do…