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I rarely use Siri on my phone - mostly to place a call via Bluetooth while driving (I have the Australian woman voice). A few weeks ago I listened to a podcast that was a long interview with Gina Carano. She was kidding with the podcast hosts about being able to take a punch pretty well because of her fighting career. When I got home I was telling my wife about it (she was laughing) and suddenly Siri said “calling domestic abuse hotline”. I immediately cancelled the call, staring at the phone, wondering if someone would call my local 911 reporting the hang up (apparently they didn’t). After we laughed about it I said “Siri, don’t listen to my conversations”, and my iPad (about 15 feet away) said “OK”.
That’s actually pretty scary stuff. Phone and iPad were listening and decided all by itself that someone needed some very unwelcome help
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Turn it off. On every device. You invited it in your house when you left it on any one of them.
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And do you really think Siri doesn't lie? If it's AI you know it does.
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I wonder if “turning it off” really only turns off the circuit that makes her talk out loud to you. I don’t know any way to be absolutely sure that it is not continuously listening and reporting to someone.
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Those voices are creepy. I don't use them.
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I have SIRI turned off on my iPhone and we don't have Alexa or any other "smart" device in our home.
Same here, except on my Garmin. I call her Sheila . . .
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