[stevenicr]

wasn't there a recent article showing that (now owned and run by amazon (?), Ring video cameras doing something similar, with ukraine "tech's" watching people's video feeds and tagging things?

I wonder how often bedroom talk is heard with these things. I would imagine there are sometimes exciting and sometimes distressing things heard with some of the audio clips.

There should be some transparency with this - a monthly message about "X number of audio clips were reviewed by humans to make our thing better" -

Isn't there some way to listen to the audio captured by your Alexa? Would be nice if there was an indicator next to some of them saying "inaudible" or "sent to human for review"

You could crowdsource and get end users to help make it smarter by clicking to add a note about what they were trying to get the thing to do even.

Either way transparency - make the info available to the end user easily. Toggle option to turn off notifications, and toggle to turn off "send my data to humans to make it better" would be nice as well.

I am sure most people won't care, but there are plenty who engage in "alternative" lifestyles who would likely not want their amazon device sending audio to humans they do not know.