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A Surveillance ‘Cat-and-Mouse’ Game With AI - The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

Odd article. It's halfway speculative: a better title is "what if always-on recording devices spy on everybody around them and not just the person wearing them?" A bit long, maybe.

The article makes this All About AI by focusing on

  • AI recording devices specifically, like the joke product "Friend" (the Atlantic never mentions this one by name, I presume out of embarrassment) or an upcoming piece of Apple hardware that IIRC has been fraught with development issues from the beginning
  • AI noise cancellation algorithms, which they note have been around since 2020 and barely register to the average person as AI unless you're writing some long-form speculation piece

I dunno, I'm more worried about the microphone in my own computer, not somebody across the room rambling into a battery-powered pendant.