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This Always-Recording AI Microphone Will Make Your Coworkers Hate You

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by Lifewire.

From the same company that brought you Rewind to record everything on your computer comes the Limitless AI microphone which will record all the audio you hear and process it using AI.

"The privacy concerns raised by any non-obvious recording device might not be limitless, but they're pretty vast. In this case, the fact that there's a feature called 'consent mode' for new voices that would be recorded, but that mode (according to media reports) is off by default, is a troubling signal about respect for privacy. We already live in a world in which people distrust so much of the technology around them; in order to build trust, privacy, at least, needs to be the default in design."

 

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by Lifewire.

 

 

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