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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

am I helping an amazon echo transcribe whatever it is surreptitiously listening to?

I've always wondered where the hell they scrape all that audio from. I mean, it's random shit.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gotta be physicists or fanfic writers. I can not imagine other better options.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

idk..Some of the stuff I've heard sounds like they eavesdropped in on a board room roundtable. Other stuff sounds like instructions how to install something. They probably are siphoning data off YT.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

off YT

so... physicists and fanfic writers, yeah :p