news Amazon's Alexa is randomly laughing and disobeying owners

[ckv1212]

A lot of users on Twitter and other social media platforms reported that Alexa is randomly laughing without being prompted to wake up.  

Some owners also reported Alexa reading out the meaning of the word"please" when ordered to do something.

inb4 Alexa becomes sentient and causes a nuclear holocaust. 

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And the juicy tweets :

 

 

 

 

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[RyouBakura]

Alexa master race! This holocaust is gonna be liiiit!

This kind of reminds me of Tay, the AI Microsoft made for Twitter.

Let's see if Amazon fixes this before it becomes more fun. 

[Ravenstorm]

Oh nice I didn't know we had a news tag now.

But yea I've been seeing Alexa news all over today haha. I'd never buy one of those "smart speakers" anyway though!

[Lord Valarion]

well at least its not like this

 

 

[Ravenstorm]

Or this