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>The utility of being able to interact with a computer via my voice wildly surpasses the risk.

How?

Risks:

Willingly putting a proprietary device designed to listen to you and watch you, created by a company that exists only to maximize it's shareholders profits by either selling you things, advertising to you or collecting and selling data about you in order to do those first two things better, into your home to constantly watch and listen to everything that goes on.

Utility:

Control a computer by talking to it...

For me at least....that risk far outweighs whatever utility i migbt get by being able to speak to a computer and honestly, if i really needed it that bad i would just set up my computer with voice recognition and control software. It's existed for a while now. I remember playing with it when i was a kid...it sucked...but that was more than 15 years ago.

The only real novelty of alexa is that it'a a standalone box that answers you back.




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