Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI

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Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI - Lemmy.World

I’m never putting one of these in my home.

I will be the last person to not have a smart home. There will be a banner over the doorway: “Welcome to Stupid House”.

There will be a small cover charge.

You can have a privacy-first smart home. I have. I run Home Assistant in a docker container. No external services/plugins. My smart doorbell streams to my local nvr. If my internet is down, everything keeps working. And it's not even that hard anymore. It's become a lot easier over the last 2-3 years. Still not for non-techie users, but a lot better.
Teach me your ways. Setting up Home Assistant seems like such a daunting task. I'm stalling converting my devices into it. Any tips for a beginner?

I just followed the steps on their site. Containers give me cancer, so I did a real install on my home server.

Caveat: I am a professional software engineer