I do, not because they make any attempt to hide it (cf. Microsoft), but because people are willing to spend their own money to buy a product marketed as an “AI-powered voice assistant” instead of an “always-on surveillance mic”
Oh, but you see, the libertarians amongst us would never stand for the construction of a surveillance state, and certainly will exercise their 2nd Amendment rights to prevent that from happening. So we’re fine.
Surveillance.
But there will be some other shiny new buzzword to distract from that
I don’t even think they’ll bother. We’re at the point were goverments just say shit that would’ve sunk them 20 or 30 years ago.
I do, not because they make any attempt to hide it (cf. Microsoft), but because people are willing to spend their own money to buy a product marketed as an “AI-powered voice assistant” instead of an “always-on surveillance mic”
I think they’ll split the difference.
On the store shelf it will be called an "AI-powered voice assistant” because branding still matters.
At shareholder meetings or for the WSJ they’ll openly call it an “always-on surveillance mic” because they don’t need to hide.
That’s always booming. I’m talking about the geegaws
Oh, but you see, the libertarians amongst us would never stand for the construction of a surveillance state, and certainly will exercise their 2nd Amendment rights to prevent that from happening. So we’re fine.