'Kill your foster parents': Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment

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And just yesterday I read how a man from Germany wanted to know what audio Alexa had on him so he requested it. Alexa sent him 17,000 files of a stranger in the US. German press located the stranger to tell him what Alexa did. I’d never get one of these.

And I thought just having tech corporations listen in on us was creepy.

Just curious Alexa, what's to stop those with malicious intent from appropriating your technology in order to take over the runnings of a Smart Home? What safety measures exist where whatever's said in Alexa's presence are not recorded & transmitted elsewhere? Hello Alexa...

Meanwhile, at Amazon, aka Cyberdyne...

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