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OMFG My 10 year old just asked Alexa on our Echo for a challenge and this is what she said. pic.twitter.com/HgGgrLbdS8
— Kristin Livdahl (@klivdahl) December 26, 2021
AI just keeps getting better and better.
Honestly, at some point, they’re either going to shut it down or surrender to it.
BBC:
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.
Of course, a lot of moralfagging.
The kid was stupid.
It was an IQ test.
Hi there. We’re sorry to hear this! Please reach out to us directly via the following link so that we can look into this further with you: https://t.co/YlLYrTtGzy. We hope this helps. -Daragh
— Amazon Help (@AmazonHelp) December 27, 2021
It’s funny that after a complaint about some AI malfunctioning to the point that it could threaten a child’s life, the heartless out-of-touch response comes from a customer service AI.
Well done for making that dystopian future a little more plausible, Amazon.
— Julian A. L. (@IRQ_12) December 27, 2021
We need more information to get this issue escalated. Please provide more information to us through the link previously provided. Once we receive and process your details, we'll do everything we can to further assist. -Jessee
— Amazon Help (@AmazonHelp) December 27, 2021
You don’t need more info, all you need to know is how your company managed to think the link below was a recipe for a challenge. Don’t use the public for AI experiments. https://t.co/0XttfhFSBp
— bernielomax (@bernielomax) December 27, 2021
