Woohoo! More training data to AI overlords. (Consent on by default of course)
gross more spyware like windows recall
Just what I always wanted: letting Google listen in on my phone calls.
Is “Google” your Android phone? If so, “Google” has always been “listening” to your calls. This is nothing new, just your phone getting more helpful. Big “old man yells at cloud” energy here.
I doubt it. It would be really obvious because of the extra data traffic. People who go bananas if they found out Google chews through their monthly plan to exfiltrate audio.
Although Google (and Apple, and all the others) are working hard to embed AI onto your cellphone, not for your own convenience but to implement client-side surveillance - i.e. digest what you see and do and distill the surveillance data on your device before it even hits the internet - so that the surveillance doesn’t attract undue attention.
But we’re not there quite yet, and I don’t believe even Google could get away with real, proper audio surveillance today.
That’s probably the reason why they want to create this bogus “note taking” service: to have a legitimate excuse to listen in on your audio.
That means I’ll have to try remember where the Phone app is, then find someone that would actually want to use it as well.
Bit torn. This would be amazing when I’m a bit deaf (screw you pollen season). But where is this being transcribed? I strongly suspect that even if it’s done phone side Google will send a recording and the text output to home base for “training” purposes.
