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I don’t understand the privacy issues. It’s not like you don’t invite random people once in a while to clean your home (if you haven’t, try it. It’s very rewarding, though expensive!)
So if we tolerate strangers cleaning our homes once in a while, why is it a privacy issue if strangers do the task through the robot while also training the AI in the future, for our benefit only?
The privacy concerns are mainly around having cameras and microphones in your home. There's no guarantee how securely that data is being kept, or that it can't be hijacked to do something other than exactly what's advertised, or exactly how it's being used.
Exactly and when you hire someone, only a few people locally are brought in. If someone has to control the robot than many people all over the world can see in your home and the video is being saved somewhere.
Seemingly mundane information like that can be used for burglary.
Hmmm. Makes sense. Can’t really trust institutions to safeguard our information or our networks. This company better have a stellar CISO.
Imagine having a camera and microphone in your house 24/7, with absolutely no guaratee about who is watching or recording you at any point. I realize that a mobile phone isn't far off that, but you can, at least, cover those.
Even if you do have people like cleaners come to your house, it's at pre-agreed times, and when they've left, they've gone and can't continue to watch you.
As mentioned before, the cleaner leaves, but the robot can, and let's face it, will, monitor you 24/7. Worse, the OP's suggested use case requires the robot to monitor all the time in order to be ready to help. If a senior falls, they may not be able to call out loudly enough to be heard, so either the robot will need to folliw them, or their hone will need to be filled with microphones and cameras, making things even worse.
You won't be training the AI for our benefit, you'll be training it for the benefit of the owners of companies like facebook, x, xAI and other's like them. That will nit end well, and certainly will not benefit society in general.
Well does the cleaner stay when they are done and wear a microphone and a camera to stream whats going on while they work, to some server their company owns? I know this company will say they are not going to store any data, and it is so safe and private, but we all know they won't be able to resist to exploit this somehow. At some point they'll simply be forced to monetise every aspect of their product.
Yeah, the cleaners keep things in their own memory. But not streaming to a server. Good one!