WTF. What could possibly go wrong. Flip phone here I come.
this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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In some countries and, (if not mistaken) states in USA, if an AI is listening to a conversation, both parties must be made aware. If they don't notify the other end, they'll be violating regulations. Privacy erosion and manipulation likelihood aside, this is a terrible idea.
they'll be violating regulations.
sure pops! and they will get a mean fine ;)
Who? Google? Google won't even get slapped on the wrists. I'm talking about the users using this (unwittingly or otherwise, the law doesn't care). Even if they don't care about the privacy implications nor the abuse of the tech, they are opening themselves up for some serious liabilities.
Edit: mistype
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If enabled, Scam Detection will beep at the start and during the call to notify participants the feature is on. You can turn off Scam Detection at any time, during an individual call or for all future calls.
Scammers will quickly catch on then the real trick will be to just play that beep without any of the ai stuff.
The beep is legal compliance, because some states require notification of call recording. Same reason you hear "this call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes".
Deciding to install GrapheneOS is constantly validated for me! But I never want to give Google money ever again.
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when i had a pixel5a, i would get multiple scam calls a day without fail, and almost always at the exact same time. with my new non-pixel, non-samsung and non-iphone i dont get as many as before, google is most likely selling your data to the very same scammers. i got a OP12R instead.
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get a load of this: those people are allowed to vote. they cant follow a phonecall but feel entitled to make decisions about their country. cant make that up. go water plants with mountain dew!
That's fine. I'm just not going to enable it.
Not enabling it may prevent you from accessing the user-facing features but may not actually prevent it from recording your conversation and training on it.
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I'm just not going to ~~enable~~ disable it.
More than half of Americans reported receiving at least one scam call per day in 2024.
Bullshit.
Americans still actively use telephony services?
I just don't use the Phone and SMS apps. Haven't for years. It's old tech that's only used by bots and scammers.
Get with the times. Just block them. You're basically putting an ad blocker on.
I'm not American, but my country has largely moved off phone and SMS but we still get spam messages on WhatsApp and Telegram. The spam and scam will chase you wherever you go, if they haven't, it just means those platforms aren't popular enough in your region for them to switch to.
Unfortunately my 70 year old neighbor is tech illiterate so they only know how to call and answer calls on the smartphone they got given by the phone service they use. Also some places i order food from have such shit online ordering or whats essentialy a test app for their app that phone calls are just so fucking easier. Heck official apps for chains dont let you log in if you have a vpn since they still go through your browser app and im NOT letting my browser through clean to order shite so again, calling works just fine.
Yes. Still common in US.
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