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https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/amazon-alexa-ai-listening-to-you-me-voice-save-record-rcna117205
Amazon will use real user conversations to train Alexa AI model

Amazon announced new AI capabilities for its Alexa products last week, based on a model it’s calling AlexaLLM (LLM refers to the “large language model”).

NBC News
@librarianshipwreck "Users know when their Alexa is listening"
Always. It's always listening. In order to know when you're saying "Alexa", it needs to know when you're not saying "Alexa".