On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:56:52 -0000 (UTC), "Leroy N. Soetoro"
<democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov> wrote:

>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59810383
>
>Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it "challenged" a 10-
>year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.
>
>The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a "challenge to do".
>
>"Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a
>penny to the exposed prongs," the smart speaker said.
>
>Amazon said it fixed the error as soon as the company became aware of it.
>
>The girl's mother, Kristin Livdahl, described the incident on Twitter.
>
>She said: "We were doing some physical challenges, like laying down and
>rolling over holding a shoe on your foot, from a [physical education]
>teacher on YouTube earlier. Bad weather outside. She just wanted another
>one."
>
>That's when the Echo speaker suggested partaking in the challenge that it
>had "found on the web".
>
>The dangerous activity, known as "the penny challenge", began circulating
>on TikTok and other social media websites about a year ago.
>
>Metals conduct electricity and inserting them into live electrical sockets
>can cause electric shocks, fires and other damage.
>
>"I know you can lose fingers, hands, arms," Michael Clusker, station
>manager at Carlisle East fire station, told The Press newspaper in
>Yorkshire in 2020.
>
>"The outcome from this is that someone will get seriously hurt."
>
>Fire officials in the US have also spoken out against the so-called
>challenge.
>
>Ms Livdahl tweeted that she intervened, yelling: "No, Alexa, no!"
>
>However, she said her daughter was "too smart to do something like that".

Too bad.

>Amazon told the BBC in a statement that it had updated Alexa to prevent
>the assistant recommending such activity in the future.
>
>"Customer trust is at the centre of everything we do and Alexa is designed
>to provide accurate, relevant, and helpful information to customers," said
>Amazon in a statement.
>
>"As soon as we became aware of this error, we took swift action to fix
>it."

KILL Alexa and all its clones. Who NEEDS the fucking things?
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