I have some questions about the new speech to text feature (the one using OpenAI Whisper). I know there is another thread on the issue, but it’s been hijacked by high emotions and extrapolation as to what is actually going on. @GaelDuval I’d also like to apologize for my part in that.
The main questions I have that haven’t been addressed thus far are these:
#1 Does an /e/ OS user’s voice ever get sent to OpenAI’s servers?
#2 If this feature is not used, does any data ever get sent to their servers, whether or not it has been anonymized?
Answers to these two questions would help to clear up a lot of people’s concerns about the feature. If the answer to both is “no” then I don’t see any privacy violation here.
And now for a little of what I think, depending on what the answers are:
If the answer to #1 is “yes” that makes this feature one I won’t ever use, but others are free to see it differently. It seems trivial for OpenAI to deanonomize the actual voice recording. I would ask that when using this feature for the first time, a warning is given explicitly stating that their voice will be shared with OpenAI.
For #2 it seems mostly obvious that this wouldn’t happen. But the question has been asked and it would be nice to have some explicit clarification. If the answer is “yes” then I feel it should be removed from /e/ OS completely. People don’t want any data going to OpenAI without their consent, even if anonymized.
The purpose of this thread is to ask questions and figure out what is actually happening. Please take any emotional responses to the other one. I fully support the removal of any posts that don’t comply with this request (at least in this specific thread).