lol what? Tesla must have made you forget about all the other smart devices we have had for over a decade.
Every time you used your voice assistant on your phone, tablet, desktop, smart speaker, etc. The audio recording of your voice was being stored on Google, Amazon servers.
Yes I expected this kind of response, as I said. Google, Amazon, Facebook have long been doing data collection as you say, and certainly one of the motivations along their path is further training of their voice-recognition and behavioral prediction algorithms. But a huge part of the motivation, and indeed the ultimate goal, is to get to know you better than you know yourself, to push advertisements, sell your profile, urge you to expand your connections to grow the social networks and so on. There's a component of pure technical progress to be sure, but it's siphoned from your current-usage intent of doing something else. Google's very annoying and time-consuming image Captcha isn't so much there for your ID security as it is to help them train visual-recognition edge cases. If you ask Alexa or Google how the Greeks make their olive oil, you'll be offered all kinds of olive oil and related products next time you go to Amazon, or via helpful shopping-cart suggestions from Alexa herself. Same for the others.
I see the FSD beta driving-clip uploads as a much more intensive, directed-purpose collection that Tesla is quite clear about. The amount of user-terminal data being pulled is staggeringly high as we've discussed. Sure, perhaps someday they could branch out into the profiling and selling of your destinations and habits. But at least at this point, it's pretty clear that they need and are using the data directly to improve the product you're using, and both parties benefit from said improvements. This is not naivete on my part; it is simply a business model that we all can understand, whether or not we feel it is technically correct or fairly priced.
I don't really expect you to agree with this because I understand your highly negative take on all things Tesla. You're a smart guy as are most people here, but we can disagree on the interpretation and the probability of eventual success. I think my take on Tesla is much more balanced; I have my criticisms and strong suggestions (which they're not likely to read or take), but there are some very interesting, potentially positive things going on and I don't fail to recognize them. Twenty years from now, if you write a book on the development of ML/NN artificial intelligence technology (however it turns out), you'd be remiss in failing to devote some space to this FSD beta program and the associated massive, fleet-wide collection of real-world cases.
