Sounds like a RATT to me. It’ll be interesting to see what comes out of this.
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Huh. Interesting?
That’s one word for it, I’m sure.
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Come on, it’s been clear where SkyNet is going to come from, ever since Microsoft bought Skype and integrated it with their own messenger service…
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Isn’t this proof that Alexa IS woke?
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“Awoken” =/= “woke”
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Maybe they were just prototyping a new skill and accidentally installed it on a few customer machines.
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Maybe. I do note that if one lists out the symptoms:
- info being pushed without being requested
- said pushed info being mostly in the form of someone (not the Alexa software) laughing
- sometimes the pushed info is not what anyone in the household has looked up, specifically a listing of local cemeteries and funeral homes
That all sounds like bored teenagers to me. Someone’s developed (or found) a tool which lets them talk through Alexa’s speaker remotely (the laughing), and probably listen too (which is why they’re laughing).
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This sounds like the most plausible explanation I’ve read.
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They’re saying that it’s a problem with detection of a skill command.
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Makes me glad I don’t have one. The Firestick I have is supposed to have Alexa in it, but that’s turned off most of the time.
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This seems like a good place to link this:
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