mo4ch:>Apple suspends Siri program that allows employees to listen in on users' private conversations | Mo4ch News

Apple has announced it is temporarily suspending its program which monitored recordings from AI assistant Siri after reports that it allowed the company’s human contractors to listen in on private conversations.“While we conduct a thorough review, we are suspending Siri grading globally,” Apple said in a comment to Business Insider.The decision follows a report from the Guardian, last week, which revealed that company workers around the globe who review the recordings from the voice assistant regularly listen to users’ private conversations.Also on rt.comSiri ‘regularly’ records sex encounters, sends ‘countless’ private moments to Apple contractorsAccording to an Apple whistleblower, a small part of Siri recordings are frequently passed to human contractors working for quality control, or grading, of Siri responses to commands. The stated aim is to “improve and develop” Siri functions, and assess, among other things, whether the voice assistant was activated accidentally or on purpose…