A closer look
Artificial intelligence voice assistants were originally heavily marketed as completely private digital butlers until it was revealed that tech companies routinely hired thousands of low-paid human contractors to secretly listen to incredibly intimate audio recordings, meaning complete strangers were frequently transcribing garbled background audio of you aggressively screaming at your kitchen speaker to set a basic pasta timer, which completely highlights the toxic audacity of modern tech development since we willingly paid hundreds of dollars to place highly sophisticated corporate wiretaps inside our most private living spaces just for the highly questionable convenience of never having to physically stand up
