In “Alice” the “eavesdropping” skill is blocked “at the iron level”

“It’s technologically impossible,” Masyuk said of the service, which performs tasks set by the user. For example, it creates a list of products for online ordering in a store using voice input.

“All our devices have a microphone mute button, which simply blocks any possibility of hearing anything at the hardware level,” the speaker explained.

Users find this especially hard to believe because in 2022, a piece of code leaked online that included an algorithm for turning on Alice’s microphone without even mentioning her name.

Let us recall that since 2023, Yandex has updated its voice assistant several times, Alice can now use GPT capabilities, and there is also a pro version of the service.

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Source: rb.ru