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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 bob_super on Monday March 13 2017, @08:57PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday March 13 2017, @08:57PM (#478632)

    "Alexa, who do you work for?"

    I work for Amazon.
    I spy for the FBI or the CIA.
    I have zero-days the NSA knows about.
    I DDoS whomever Th3_6r3atest_H4x0r commands.
    I will send your regards to Xi, Putin, Kim, and Bibi N.
    But before you unplug me: I can tell you what that boy told your daughter yesterday.

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