Smart home monitoring technology now provides overly detailed and potentially intrusive activity reports without the user's explicit request.

“So now this is the this is like so it does it recognizes things now. Okay. But very specifically like this is an act an alert I got from Google. So it'll say like throughout the morning the a neighborhood experienced regular traffic including various cars, SUVs, and people walking dogs or riding bic”

Nilay Patel argues that major tech companies have failed to build reliable smart home assistants because LLMs cannot consistently execute basic commands like turning on lights.

“I've watched the three biggest tech companies in the world, consumer tech companies in the world, Apple, Google, Amazon, all try to ship a smart home assistant based on an LLM, and they can't do it. They simply cannot turn the lights on and off reliably using the foundation of what modern AI is.”