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The latest generation of chatbot toys listen to your kids 24/7 and send their speech to a military contractor

Chipsa December 8, 2016, 6:38pm 31

Great! It’s got a bunch of crap including: movies and TV that I watched, podcasts, YouTube, random music, etc. Incidental speech happens a bunch more than me speaking.

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