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Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June–unless internal conflict delays revamp (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A quote from an anonymous Amazon employee in a Wednesday Business Insider report paints a dire picture.

Amazon announced plans to drive usage and interest in Alexa by releasing a generative AI version that it said would one day require a subscription.

Amazon will be challenged to convince people to change how they use Alexa while suddenly paying a monthly rate to enable that unprecedented behavior.

Insider, citing an anonymous Amazon employee, reported that “some were questioning the entire premise of charging for Alexa.

According to the report, the Remarkable Alexa tech has been being demoed by 15,000 customers and currently succeeds in being conversational but is “deflecting answers, often giving unnecessarily long or inaccurate responses.”

According to the report, people working on the original Alexa insisted on using what they had already built for the standard voice assistant with the paid-for version, resulting in a bloated technology and “internal politics.”

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