Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans.

  • @exanime
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    86 days ago

    Sadly, that’s what we do with phones, cars, tvs, etc

    • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      66 days ago

      Fortunately, there are solutions to each of those:

      • phones - alternative Android ROMs and fdroid
      • cars - remove the connectivity module
      • TVs - don’t let it access your network and don’t use the apps

      That’s not true for Alexa, you need to allow it to spy for its core functionality to work.

      • @exanime
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        56 days ago

        Yeap I’m just saying it’s sadly all too common

        I’m actually degoogling at the moment precisely because of all this