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Just stop talking to your computer and use the screen interface, that still works.

When I'm on my bike, it's difficult. I will ride no handed and change a track, but it's more dangerous than it needs to be.

I might switch back to my iOS device, but what I'd really like to do is replace the Andriod OS on this Motorola with a community oriented open source OS. Then I could start working on piping the mic audio to my own STT model and execute commands on the phone.

Just stop if you need to adjust something?

Google already broke the basic functionality they wanted, dropping android now beats constantly looking for subpart workarounds.

Microsoft pulled the this crap with Windows, you once they stop caring about their you’ve already lost it’s time to stop paying their game.

So just don't bring a phone at all?

GrapheneOS or LineageOS on your phone gets rid of the AI cruft. Linux on your computer.

There are few things AI is truly very good at. Surveillance at scale is one of them. Given everything going on in the world these days it's worth considering.

OP wants AI to change the music. They just don't want the new EULA added to the mix.

AI is meaningless term when you extend it to cover everything, may as well just call it software.

So yea the software’s EULA changed for the worse, that’s the underlying issue.

Voice recognition has always been AI, and using an LLM improves it

Some parts of voice assistants used AI techniques other parts didn’t. Calling the whole thing AI is like calling Office 365 AI, it’s too vague to be useful. The most reliable parts are using dictation to interact with the preprogrammed bits.

Also, early attempts at dictation wasn’t considered AI, instead a machine learning etc was found to be useful so it’s been tossed into the AI bucket rather arbitrarily.

That seems a lot like corpo- excuse making about adjusting usage to compensate for the fact that a product someone purchased has been changed, and broken, in order to be forced into agreement for a contract. That is called coercion in many places, but it seems like your recommended solution is that people accept getting screwed just so corporations can make more money when people complain…is that correct?

I mean, any time you suggest "regulate companies" or "form a union", you get dogpiled. So until society gets its act together and collectively fixes these problems, the only immediate solution is to opt out.

I'm just saying, how often do you need to adjust your phone while you're cycling?

It's a step back to not be able to do it by voice but if you're concerned enough about your privacy, stopping once or twice during a ride doesn't sound like the end of the world.

I'm not saying it's fine that Google took away functionality but, from a practical perspective, it seems like OP was acting like there's no other option available to change tracks. There is and it's really not that inconvenient.

How long, though, until every input is AI-interpreted and your intention is "helpfully" translated to "what you meant"

To be fair it seems to already be happening. My phone keyboard, always prone to interpolating what I type into utter nonsense, seems to have gotten worse in the past year or so.

If you’re on iOS, and don’t use swipe keyboard, disable that functionality. I found it made a big improvement for me.

> Just stop talking to your computer and use the screen interface, that still works.

This reply demonstrates you don't understand the problem. Please don't contribute to the enshittifacation of everything by being an apologist for unethical behavior.

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