How an Amazon Echo ended up recording and sharing a ...
How an Amazon Echo ended up recording and sharing a private conversation The short answer: Alexa misinterpreted background noise as a command.
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JavaWinters 😷
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JavaWinters 😷
Amazon says that the device, once activated, picked up phrasing in the couple’s conversation that it construed as a “send message” request. Alexa then went on to perceive another mention in the conversation as the naming of a specific recipient for that message. And so on and so forth.
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Άτροπος
“Oops.”
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mimi
Big oops...