Ask HN: Why do we care about message privacy but let AI listen to our meetings?

Signal and Telegram are built around private, encrypted communication.

But every time, I join the meeting I see some random AI note-taker bot. It basically transcribes the most precise things ever - your meetings.

Why people stopped to care that their data - their voice, their meeting voice are processed on servers somewhere?

9 points | by librarian1 198 days ago

5 comments

  • paulcole 197 days ago
    > Why people stopped to care that their data - their voice, their meeting voice are processed on servers somewhere?

    I never cared in the first place. Plenty of things in the world worth caring about — this is not one of them to me.

  • schwartzworld 195 days ago
    Meetings are the worst place to share knowledge. I can’t count the times when I’ve built something only to find out I missed a requirement that was verbally stated in a meeting I missed that wasn’t recorded.

    Ai bots are a dumb solution to this real problem. 75 years ago they would have had a human transcribing the meeting minutes. I’m not sure what the better solution is.

  • Spooky23 196 days ago
    It’s madness. I push back on recording. I don’t need contemporaneous comments transcribed and stored in some database to be rolled out for ediscovery in a decade.
  • meiraleal 197 days ago
    > Why people stopped to care that their data

    How do people stop doing something they never did? People never cared about their data, that's why Google and Facebook are huge.