Burger King made a commercial that intentionally sets off voice assistants. Oh lord. nitter.vloup.ch/glowgow/status/8… (via @glowgow)
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lol google disabled the exact frequency of this so it doesn't work anymore

Apr 13, 2017 · 5:36 AM UTC

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Isn't that kind of a lazy way of doing it? Like compared to Apple, where Siri is matched to the owner's voice
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Better way to disable it is to never buy any kind of HAL9000 prototype devices in the first place.
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if (text.contains ("burguer")) { text = audios.next (); }
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Mine still wakes up but no longer responds
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Playing this just activated my Home across the room...although it didn't give an answer.
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If they wanted, they could detect when a command is coming from youtube. Less data mining though.
What if you edited wikipedia so the reply would come back as something so horrible any child to hear the words would be irreparably damaged?
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Then BK should just air a uniquely modded/pitch-shifted version each time
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Now they'll have to consider a custom hotword. About time. Did you ever entered in a pub shouting "ok Google!"?
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That poor man form the ad can never ask his google home what a whopper burger is
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