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.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    71·
    6 months 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@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

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

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