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What the fuck is Alexa+ 🤣🤣🤣
After AI became a thing, Amazon decided you needed to pay a subscribtion to use Alexa with an LLM instead of the basic keyword recognition model
Well someone's gotta pay for that small country's worth of wasted electricity
Sounds like another case of Amazon trying to out-Amazon itself