Companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple keep making product changes in the service of AI, whether users want them or not. Amazon's dropping of the ability for three of its Echo devices to process Alexa commands locally may not affect many users, but it's part of a disturbing trend toward erosion of choice - and trust.
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