Google Assistant making calls pretending to be human not only without disclosing that it's a bot, but adding "ummm" and "aaah" to deceive the human on the other end with the room cheering it... horrifying. Silicon Valley is ethically lost, rudderless and has not learned a thing.
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i recieve up to five or six phone calls a day from automated services. why the hell is it only unethical when i get to do it?
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Doesn’t speak well to internal culture that they’d demo like this: put in disfluencies, and go public with no accompanying conversation about implications and just get wild applause instead of a gasp.
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Old enough to remember Google Glass…
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Where's the lie?
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Google's core business, and practically only source of income, is deceiving people. Do you think there's something honorable in serving ads (or "more accurate" ads) that this reaction contradicts?
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It is possible massively to over-react in unreasonable and indeed counter-productive ways, and that does not cease to be the case if if you call it ‘tone’.
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True, but since Google made cheating & deceiving its business model cheering is the “logical” to be expected response. That model filters out the people employed as regards personality traits
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How is this deceiving people? Does it really matter who is on the other side? We've had automated voice calls for a long time. No one got pissed at them. Why now? You just find the very natural responses too spooky.
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