> You strap it onto your wrist or clip it onto your shirt. It’ll then listen to all your conversations. (...) Depending on your comfort level, you can permit it to scan through your emails, contacts, location, reminders, photos, and calendar events.<p>This is such an insane violation of privacy for everyone who communicates with or even just near a person wearing this. I cannot believe this is legal and accepted.
When you get down to it, the vast majority of LLM stuff is actually fan fiction under the hood.<p>Even your interaction with an "assistant" is actually a document describing a conversation between two characters, where one has dialogue of what you entered and the other is acted-out.
Even with perfect recording things will go bad pretty fast. The Black Mirror episode was just too naive.<p>And wait till the very explicit AI that is meant to record everything near you ends in the very implicit one in your smartphone, computers and other gadgets which manufacturers may decide that an extra AI push may be better for the service it provides (using Hanlon's Razor here)
It seems that the actual hardware is just a dumb microphone with a Bluetooth connection to the phone and basically the whole thing is running on the cloud.
Couldn’t e.g. an always on AirPod etc do the same trick?