Apple Watch's New AI Features Raise Questions About Always-Listening Tech
Features that transcribe speech and summarize conversations raise new privacy and consent questions, according to TechCrunch.
Apple's new AI features for its watches, which can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations, are raising new questions about consent and privacy, TechCrunch reported.
Apple says the devices will not save raw audio, according to the report, which examined how the features could change behavior for people aware they could always be recorded.
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- Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening — TechCrunch
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