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Amazon admits Alexa is laughing at people and is working on a fix
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
They almost have to, don't they? The privacy and trust implications are pretty high.
But I wonder, can their response be trusted? I mean, it's either malice or incompetence or a complete fluke accident, and the third one is the only one they'll admit to, right?
Malice is the first thought that comes to my mind. Perhaps a security vulnerability allowed somebody to access people's devices. It sounds exactly like the type of joke a curious hacker would play.
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#14Just .. no. Is this really happening?
Come on people, this can't be real. We need to step back.
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#15Obviously a worm.
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#16This 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 Echo has triggered randomly when I'm nearbye and not talking. Only to say something to the effect of "Sorry I didn't understand what you say" so I'm guessing there is a bit of a bias in people reporting.
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#17This 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?
Most likely selection bias at work here.
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#18"Yeah, it's a bug . . . we didn't want you to actually _hear_ us laughing at you."
Re: Amazon admits Alexa is laughing at people and is working on a fix
#19This 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.
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#20Just .. 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?