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I really hope Amazon will publish a post-mortem for this bug.
They almost have to, don't they? The privacy and trust implications are pretty high.
This is one category of bug that's always intrigued me - I can understand unintentional triggers of Alexa occurring (as they did with the Home mini at launch), but why are those triggers resulting in a "creepy laugh"? Is it just that we're only hearing about the unintentional triggers that result in a laugh?
My guess is that a developer replaced the "I didn't hear what you said." response with this creepy laugh on his home Alexa, then somehow accidentally pushed that build to the public.
The other explanations are a hack or disgruntled employee which seem worse.
This is one category of bug that's always intrigued me - I can understand unintentional triggers of Alexa occurring (as they did with the Home mini at launch), but why are those triggers resulting in a "creepy laugh"? Is it just that we're only hearing about the unintentional triggers that result in a laugh?
I don't own one of these--are there any conditions under which Alexa will laugh normally/in an expected way? This falls under Furby bugs level of weirdness. http://official-furby.wikia.com/wiki/Furby_Bugs
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They almost have to, don't they? The privacy and trust implications are pretty high.
If it's a result of something shady they're doing, why would they release a post mortem instead of just letting the story die and let people forget about it?
This is one category of bug that's always intrigued me - I can understand unintentional triggers of Alexa occurring (as they did with the Home mini at launch), but why are those triggers resulting in a "creepy laugh"? Is it just that we're only hearing about the unintentional triggers that result in a laugh?
I don't own one of these--are there any conditions under which Alexa will laugh normally/in an expected way? This falls under Furby bugs level of weirdness. http://official-furby.wikia.com/wiki/Furby_Bugs
Just .. no. Is this really happening? Come on people, this can't be real. We need to step back.
From the article.... Amazon admitted it's happening and is working on a fix: Amazon responded to the creepiness in a statement to The Verge, saying, “We’re aware of this and working to fix it.” The Verge is not the only source that Amazon has made this statement to. So unless this is some fake phenomenon that Amazon dreamt up to raise Alexa awareness, why do you doubt it's real?
This is one category of bug that's always intrigued me - I can understand unintentional triggers of Alexa occurring (as they did with the Home mini at launch), but why are those triggers resulting in a "creepy laugh"? Is it just that we're only hearing about the unintentional triggers that result in a laugh?
I don't own one of these--are there any conditions under which Alexa will laugh normally/in an expected way? This falls under Furby bugs level of weirdness. http://official-furby.wikia.com/wiki/Furby_Bugs
Also, article says it happens often as a bizarre response to requests to turn of the lights. Maybe "lights" is being interpreted as "laugh" as in a command.