It's technically possible to make your own 100% local smart house with an llm ( i think the best for automated text to api is called gorilla 7b ) using llama.ccp , whisper for transcription and tortoise (it got 10x faster recently ) for realistic lifelike tts. 1 powerful pc is the maestro, multiple raspberry pi l with a 10inch display and a microphone to handle the input part.

YET THE ABOMINABLE MACHINE SPEAKS! PURGE IT WITH HOLY FIRE!

ah yes the good old convenience > privacy

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This is all true. The one problem I think they really should change though, is they KEEP the voice data they collect by mistake. When the local device thinks it heard the wake word, but the cloud analysis decided it was not said.

There is ZERO reason to keep that data long term. If they want to analyze it to reduce the incidences of this, MAYBE but then it should work like this:

1: Instantly anonymized
2: Sent into an analysis queue
3: Deleted as soon as analysis is complete (with a pretty short window for mandatory deletion).

This makes me happy to see your comment as the first comment in here.

I have a smart camera plugged into a different brand's smart plug in my bedroom. This way we can turn the plug on when we are away and see our cat, but a hacker would be less likely able to see up sleeping. (Also we leave it off by default.)

Now imagine actual androids were taking jobs

Honestly to me that's the real crazy thing of the culture and system that's getting so frustrating. The work to survive is a product of a society that needed things to be done to make things move forward. If we figure out a way to say eliminate 99.9% of the need for work, are we going to turn things into say like many dystopia views, like the episode of black mirror where people were "working" by peddling on a bike, or the Jetsons where he sits around pushing the same button for hours.

Androids to me seem... meaningless for taking actual jobs. Most jobs don't need sentience or personality, they require the ability to follow instructions, do tasks and in some cases solve problems. The robots that will be mining rare earth minerals, or assembling chips etc.. shouldn't have any sentience or even need to communicate in complex ways.

IMO by the time thinking communicating androids are out... there won't be much real need for regular labor. 90% of Jobs will either be silly artificial tasks as pointless as bitcoin mining, or working will become something for a tiny handful of people.

Ive noticed that the cyberpunk genre is widely misunderstood. That's likely intentional on behalf of corporations who really aren't served best by us fully embracing the cyberpunk attitude against corportations.

Telescreens, yes, Orwell didn't anticipate that people would happily pay for them

Because he's submissive (it's built to serve humans) and breedable (it's horny)