Wait, what? Alexa devices are laughing at people, unprompted…

Wait, what? Alexa devices are laughing at people, unprompted…

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/7/17092334/amazon-alexa-devices-strange-laughter

That seems like a weird kind of thing to be a bug. It’s probably intentional on *someone’s* part.

It really makes you wonder about the security of things like Amazon Key.

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Update from the article: Apparently there was an “Alexa, laugh” command that was picking up on sounds that it wasn’t supposed to.

Which brings up an entirely *different* set of concerns over internet-connected voice activation.

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