[jariel]

"Then it's "intended" to hinder development of practical speech models the likes of which hadn't been seen from decades of research that lacked access to hundreds of hours of input from users asking real questions in real environments."

This is simply not true.

Google can absolutely obtain data from users in a manner that's transparent and clear for specific purposes.

They have 40K highly paid Engineers and $100B sitting in the bank. They have ample resources with which they can draw meaningful data necessary - but they'd rather not, if they can just use your data for whatever they want.

[shadowgovt]

Not when they don't even know what future purposes look like.