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Amazon Plans to Unveil Next-Generation Alexa AI Later This Month
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How have you managed that?
Im in the UK and although a constant game of whack-a-mole with amazon releasing new categories weekly.... (that you have to turn off)...
... all my echo shows now force 'sponsored content' - ruins the experience and ive got rid of all but the show 15 as a result.
If this is the case Amazon must have some great fart generators.
Amazon listening devices is no different than Apple with Siri. I have not seen adds in my browsing or on Amazon that come close to being about anything Alexa would over hear me talking about. So if it is doing that it is doing a really poor job. I am fully ok with people not wanting a device listening in on them in their house, but think if you really are against it do you have an old dumb flip phone as well or do people believe that somehow Apple is better than amazon?
It wasn't able to release its new AI around the world, not even it's brand new SIRI to the US. I would not expect that much in WWDC... Maybe they'll announce sth for the future, that was Apple has being done lately.
I just went through menus and disabled anything that looked like it might add unwanted content to my screen. Not sure what the crucial toggle/s are. I do still occasionally get Alexa suggest notifications where it promotes some Alexa/echo feature (e.g. did you know you can say X to accomplish Y?). I can't seem to disable these, altough I don't consider those to be adverts per se. I certainly don't get any sponsored content or ads for goods or services.
My largest echo show is one of the early 7 or 8" ones so quite old. My only other ones are the 5" ones (and probably not the latest generation). Perhaps there is some variation between models and generations which explain differing experiences.
The thing is that's all I want to do with Siri or any digital assistant. I’ve seen the demos and they were cool, but I never need to do those things.
maybe
I too have toggled everything off.
However there is no escaping 'sponsored content' - not for me anyway.
Maybe, who knows, there is so much backlash to Amazon and it will impact sales of screen-based Echo devices that they may reverse the decision.
I disconnected our Alexa device in the kitchen and replaced it with Nest Audio last week.
I used to be employed by Alexa to teach devs how to make Alexa skills, even managed the Alexa Champions program, and got to see the sausage being made. But it didn't get bad enough until recently. Alexa seemed to get dumber and dumber over the past few years. Plus we switched our family plan from Apple Music to YouTube Premium with YouTube Music for our boys (who have and prefer Android phones), and it's hard to connect YouTube Music to Alexa with the same ease as Apple Music or Spotify.
This will not convince me to re-enable my Alexa devices. Too little, too late.
I used to be employed by Alexa to teach devs how to make Alexa skills, even managed the Alexa Champions program, and got to see the sausage being made. But it didn't get bad enough until recently. Alexa seemed to get dumber and dumber over the past few years. Plus we switched our family plan from Apple Music to YouTube Premium with YouTube Music for our boys (who have and prefer Android phones), and it's hard to connect YouTube Music to Alexa with the same ease as Apple Music or Spotify.
This will not convince me to re-enable my Alexa devices. Too little, too late.