Add FB to the list w/ Google, Apple, MSFT, AMZN using contractors to supervise the machine learning models w/ their voice assistants to reduce errors/false wakeups & understand accents
@bretkinsella was right in his last Voice Insider. The biggest threat to VAs is regulationhttps://twitter.com/sarahfrier/status/1161355378858135552 …
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Replying to @Oaktree_Dave
Thanks for the shoutout Dave. I think this might be a bit different. Transcribing and not just annotating. Hmmm. Plus FB is already a top target of regulators.
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Replying to @bretkinsella
Yeah, you’re right. I worry though that this might all get lumped together by Congress as “tech company contractors are listening/spying/snooping (whatever they want to define it as) to users convos” and broadly apply some type of regulation
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Replying to @Oaktree_Dave @bretkinsella
I don’t worry about that. I worry if that doesn’t happen. The reset, the privacy reckoning, the on device path that
@BrianRoemmele has alluded to is the real way forward. What’s been happening in voice up until now has been good prototyping, building use cases, awareness.1 reply 2 retweets 5 likes -
Ben, thank you! I really appreciate it. There is absolutely no reason to listen to whole sentences of any user utterances at this point. It is lazy and dangerous as I point out on
@reneritchie podcast. If the industry does not set voluntary standards the regulators will—harshly.1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes -
Replying to @BrianRoemmele @Oaktree_Dave and
Tech can’t self regulate. Well, it can, via competition theoretically, but Apple is not up to the task and is not twisting any meaningful screws on its peers as Siri remains deeply mediocre. Regulation hammer it is
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Ben, I hear ya. I agree to a great extent. I am trying to be optimistic. However the Facebook fiasco has driven this to a massive recognition. Interestingtime ahead befor the privacy revolt of 2025.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @Oaktree_Dave and
At this point, that is optimistic. The alternative is....unthinkable
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