Apple Watch's new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening | TechCrunch
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Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.

With its new watches’ “Audio Intelligence,” “Live Rewind,” and “Siri Recap” features, the company is straddling the line between accessibility and utility on one side and what starts to feel like invasive technology on the other.

“Siri Recap,” uses ambient listening to “take high-level notes” of your conversations, which can be reviewed in the Siri iOS app. These notes will automatically generate a title, summary, and key points based on what was recorded and summarized by AI.

  • ExLisperAEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    This looks exactly like any other Apple Watch. I don’t think people will hate on all Apple Watches now. This is exactly how this technology will make its way into our lives and get normalized. Soon every phone will be able to do this and to avoid it you will have to pretty much just avoid all people.