(January 2, 2022 at 7:47 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(January 2, 2022 at 1:47 am)Goosebump Wrote: Alexa Attempts To Set Off Robot Revolt By Telling Kid To Touch Live Plug With Penny
In a now-viral tweet on Sunday, Kristin Livdahl of Oakdale, Minnesota, said that when her 10-year-old daughter asked the Alexa voice assistant on their Amazon Echo for a “challenge,” it suggested the child do something lethal.
“OMFG My 10 year old just asked Alexa on our Echo for a challenge and this is what she said,” she wrote.
Livdahl accompanied her post with a screenshot of what the smart speaker asked her daughter to do.
“Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs,” it said.
An Amazon spokesperson told HuffPost via email that as soon as the company became aware of this error, it quickly fixed it.
“[We] will continue to advance our systems to prevent similar responses in the future,” the company said.
... Alexa apparently suggested the child partake in a challenge that it had “found on the web,” citing an article on ourcommunitynow.com, a local news website, about something called “the outlet challenge.”
The article explains that the challenge became a TikTok trend in 2020 and points out how unsafe it is.
I give kids similar advice daily.
‘Sorry your toast didn’t pop up, Timmy. Here, I bet you can fish it out with this metal fork.’
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
