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In what way does this violate the privacy of anyone around them? It doesn't even store audio recordings, which is something every smartphone has been able to do for 20 years.

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It keeps information on what they said?

15 seconds at a time, when the owner activates the feature. The scale of its recall is not meaningfully different than someone scribbling down 15 seconds worth of what they hear someone say (or even just remembering it), and does not pose a greater privacy risk than a scratchpad or human memory.

It’s also much less effective at recording people speaking for long durations than the audio recording feature that every smartphone for the last 20 years has supported.

It also does not identify individual speakers.

There are two features, you have listed one of them.

If you don't want any one to write down or remember what you said, maybe don't say it to them?

Have you never had a conversation someone you trust that you prefer there not be an automated written record of?

This thread is so fascinating, I had no idea that because I'm comfortable having an intimate conversation with a friend means I'm also okay with a potentially permanent AI summary being generated based on it, and without my knowledge or consent!

Sure. But it's the exception. Most of my conversations are incredibly boring work stuff, where the records are extremely helpful to me too, or incredibly boring logistics discussion with family. Maybe you guys just have a lot more shocking secrets than I do.

This is not a person

Human memory keeps more information than this feature does.

Human memory is connected to a person with agency.

Uh, yes?

Therefore a human is capable of distinguishing what is appropriate or not to be around for

Human memory does not keep more information than an always-on live transcript of all words spoken around you.

What? It certainly keeps more information that a 15 second transcript.

There are two different features:

"Siri Recap" records throughout the day without the user needing to constantly enable it. It provides AI summaries of the recorded conversations including direct quotes.

"Live Rewind" shows an exact transcript of conversation but only of the 15 seconds immediately before the user activated it.

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