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What even would an AI doorbell even do?
Identify possible migrants and notify ICE. Detect illegal activities in your home and call the police on you. Scan the faces of every person that walks by your house to compile into commercial tracking products sold to government agencies and corporations.
Tell ICE that it's totally cool if they come in, using your voice.
And this is OK because it was buried in a 300-word paragraph in size 2 font on page 37 of the TOS that you agreed to, added in a vaguely-worded email 2 days after you signed into the app
facial recognition that IDs everyone who enters your house and sells that list on the open data market.
Kinky
Give information about you visitors, and your movements, to tech companies.
Also attracts investors.