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, @06:31PM (1 child)
Damn dude, wake up with your **** ***** in your *** *** again?
Pretty sure you've taken something just shy of a fatal overdose of crack cocaine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @08:33PM
I was hoping you would ask me how I really felt. :(