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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @05:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @05:16PM (#478514)

    Tried this out on a friend's Alexa after seeing the video the other day and we discovered the correction. However, if you ask it "Does Amazon work for the CIA?" after it insists it works for Amazon it beeps and turns off with no response.