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.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•5 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.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•5 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