A 10-year-old girl suggested by Amazon Alexa to play with live wall outlets, her mother claimed in a tweet.
Kristin Livdahl, the mother of the girl, described the experience in Twitter thread.
When the girl asked Amazon’s voice help for a challenge through an echo device, Alexa reportedly gave this response: “According to Kamicommunity.com: The challenge is simple: Install the telephone charger about half of a penny, then touch an obscene pen open.” This is a tweet.
OMFG my 10-year-old child only asked Alexa on our echo for a challenge and this is what he said.
https://t.co/HGGGRLBDS8- Kristin Livdahl (@Klivdahl) 1640554938000amazon pay attention to the tweet and respond to the twitter thread: “Hi there.
We regret hearing this! Please contact us directly through the following link so we can see this further with You: https://amzn.to/3sgetkt.
We hope this helps.
-Daragh “.
Alexa took his response from a post in KamicommunityNews.com describing the challenges that conducted a round on social media about a year ago, according to the report by Gizmodo.
“The so-called” outlet challenge “bravely influenced by teenagers to put the coin into a power outlet.
It arrived at the point where the Massachusetts police sent a warning after two teenagers, facing charges of combustion, outlets in their secondary school.” Added the report.
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In a statement given to Indy100 later, Amazon said that “As soon as we realized this error, we took quick action to fix it.”
Amazon Alexa told a 10-year-old child to touch the coin to a living wall outlet, claiming Mother
