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You could have said this exact same thing without it sounding like a personal attack, but you chose to be unkind instead. I wonder why?

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Because crime is bad and I don't have to be nice to those who support criminals doing crimes. If your marketing differentiator vs all the AI recording bot products is that with your product, you can record people without them knowing you are recording them... then your business model is literally to facilitate crime in many jurisdictions, including California.

Let me be clear: if you have a bot capturing audio in a call you have with someone in California, and you do not tell that person you are recording them, then you have committed a felony, even if you are not in California.

And what is it about you that makes you so allergic to me calling this out? I wonder why....

See, I can do that too. How does that feel? We having a good conversation here?

Are you an attorney? I would be careful making such sweeping statements unless you are. A transcription is not a wiretap, it's not obvious to me that an anti-recording law would apply here. Plus, if you're on a call with coworkers, they likely already know that transcription is taking place, even if you don't explicitly say so at the start of each meeting. This is why you should be more kind - you might not know all these things.

Thanks for your comments. I wish more people had a personal policy of not putting up with those who commit or endorse crime/fraud/bullshit. The world would be a better place.

I can think of at least five reasons to use this that aren't illegal, including the fact that the law doesn't work the way this person thinks it does.

The way he phrased it has turned me from someone eager to discuss the potential uses of this into someone unwilling to engage with him to discuss it any further. Even if it turns out that he's absolutely 100% correct (he's not) I'll talk to someone else about it instead.

I suspect this person regularly has "conversations" where the other party suddenly becomes silent, and he misinterprets that as a "victory" instead of the other person deciding he isn't worth the trouble.

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