论文标题
如果不值得撰写的论文：挑衅Alexa和Google Assistant Ecosystems的技能认证
When It's Not Worth the Paper It's Written On: A Provocation on the Certification of Skills in the Alexa and Google Assistant Ecosystems
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论文摘要
语音助手的覆盖范围和功能越来越多使他们成为播放音乐，访问信息和控制智能家居设备等任务的通用平台。为了保持第三方技能的质量，保护儿童和其他公众免受不适当或恶意技能的侵害，平台提供商已经制定了内容政策和认证程序，这些技能必须在公开发布之前进行。不幸的是，研究表明，这些措施在策划语音助理平台方面无效，并记录了具有重大安全性和隐私问题的技能实例。这份挑衅论文概述了这些平台的基本体系结构如何将技能认证变成一个看似棘手的问题，以及当前的认证方法如何没有其全部潜力。我们提供了一个路线图，用于改善当代语音助理平台上的技能认证状态，包括平台供应商需要采取的研究方向和行动。促进国内语音助手的这种变化尤其重要，因为商业和工业助理的开发商或其他类似情况越来越多地寻找这些设备的规范和惯例。
The increasing reach and functionality of voice assistants has allowed them to become a general-purpose platform for tasks like playing music, accessing information, and controlling smart home devices. In order to maintain the quality of third-party skills and to protect children and other members of the public from inappropriate or malicious skills, platform providers have developed content policies and certification procedures that skills must undergo prior to public release. Unfortunately, research suggests that these measures have been ineffective at curating voice assistant platforms, with documented instances of skills with significant security and privacy problems. This provocation paper outlines how the underlying architectures of these platforms had turned skill certification into a seemingly intractable problem, as well as how current certification methods fall short of their full potential. We present a roadmap for improving the state of skill certification on contemporary voice assistant platforms, including research directions and actions that need to be taken by platform vendors. Promoting this change in domestic voice assistants is especially important, as developers of commercial and industrial assistants or other similar contexts increasingly look to these devices for norms and conventions.
