Amazon admits Alexa is laughing at people and is working on a fix

Post by avarun » Wed, Mar 07, 2018, 7:47 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 07, 2018, 7:59 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 07, 2018, 8:18 PM UTC

avarun wrote: post #2

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?

Post by tyingq » Wed, Mar 07, 2018, 8:50 PM UTC

avian wrote: post #3

I really hope Amazon will publish a post-mortem for this bug.

Post by tyingq » Wed, Mar 07, 2018, 8:53 PM UTC

_sdegutis wrote: post #9

tyingq wrote: post #8

Earlier 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?