Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification

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• Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Use shit product. Get shit results.

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  • grranibal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Make shitpost

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    • xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wait, it’s all shit?

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• chortle_tortle@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me

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• garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  7 years ago, my google home provided me with this list. That was the last time I think I ever tried to use it to make any sort of list.

  Screenshot of packing list. Item 1 aloe Vera. Item 2 did you hear me.

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  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    i don’t get it…

    Are you brit and you call your assistant Vera?

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• Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Someone invented keyboards

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  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Some people can’t use keyboards due to mobility reasons. Voice assistants are not bad as an idea, it’s the shitty companies that make them.

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• Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve had several Alexas scattered around my house for years now. Seems everytime there’s a new update they function worse. Literally considering getting rid if them at this point.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Every day I tell myself I’m ditching them and “just” getting HomeAssistant.

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• binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Has anyone else noticed how absolutely awful spellcheck has gotten?

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I am surprised at how often I will do something like “Play ‘The Apple Orchard in Saghmosavanq’ by Tigran Hamasyan” and I get back “Now playing Christina Applegate”. It’s like AI latches on to they biggest keyword it can detect and focuses on that even if it violates part of the search parameters.

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    LLMs are just a phone autocorrect with a phone the size of a small town

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• Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s the alternative? Is there actually a good voice assistant out there?

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What’s the alternative?

    Open your music app yourself, select the song, and press play.

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    • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My SO just asks me to do it. Works pretty well for them.

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    • binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve only ever witnessed people using “digital assistants” to play music and make grocery lists. Both of those things are so trivial that I wouldn’t spend any time or money solving them, and it’s not even easier their way. The number of times I’ve heard someone say “Alexa. STOP. <Repeated command phrase in increasing volume>!”

      Definitely not enough of a tradeoff to wiretap your own house.

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    • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It would be pretty usefull to be able to do that with a voice command, while driving. Way less risky. But sure

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    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Turn on the radio

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  • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It actually takes more effort to ask a machine to do something for you than just doing most of the things you can ask them to do.

    Useful for the disabled and elderly or those with other mobility issues, for everyone else they’re a waste of time that spies on you and sells your data.

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    • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or when driving.

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No, but if you want a voice assistant that you can tinker with but without expectations, I’ve been enjoying the Home Assistant Voice Preview (preview here refers to it not being consumer ready, a beta or similar).

    It does need a Home Assistant setup first, it’s not a stand alone speaker.

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    • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve been playing around with it, it’s ok for home stuff, but no on-device functions.

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  • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just found Dicio, it works so well, woah

    f-droid.org/packages/org.stypox.dicio/

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• JelleWho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have the problem with Google Assistant in Dutch that I asked for “speel muziek x” and it just starts to spel the words.

  I’ve been moving to Music Assistant with nodes that use Nabu, so all local and it actually tries to do what I asked it for

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• Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Heavy metal has a top tier soundtrack

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