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Amazon Adjusts Alexa after Viral Video

posted by on Monday March 13 2017, @01:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the Truffaldino dept.

butthurt writes:

Consumerist reports that Amazon.com has updated Alexa, the software of its Amazon Echo listening devices, in the wake of a viral video in which someone asks the device "Do you work for the CIA?" and it goes silent and dark. The updated software says "No, I work for Amazon."

The submitter found a video on Youtube in which a Google Home device responds "I've got to admit, I'm not sure" in answer to the same question, as well as a video showing the updated Alexa software going silent when asked "Is Amazon connected to the CIA?".

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  • (Score: 2) by wisnoskij on Monday March 13 2017, @02:02PM (1 child)

    by wisnoskij (5149) <reversethis-{moc ... ksonsiwnohtanoj}> on Monday March 13 2017, @02:02PM (#478395)

    Is this its default state? Does it not ask for clarification if it does not understand the question?

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @02:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @02:28PM (#478410)

    Wouldn't make for an interesting story the other way, now would it?