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Alexa is freaking its owners out with random laughter and defiance

Technology 7 March 2018
Amazon Alexa users are saying the device is laughing at inappropriate moments and doing things like reading off names of funeral homes unprompted. Amazon told The Verge it is working on a fix.
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Replying bc THIS creepy thing happened last night: we got home and, totally unprompted, our Amazon Echo/Alexa started talking. And then i realized it was listing off local cemeteries and funeral homes??? I'd rather it laugh at me tbh

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So, this is going to sound insane, and I do mean literally insane, but the gods as my witness...it really happened. I was just asking about my day tomorrow and checking for news and weather updates when she literally stopped doing what I asked her. Literally. Then... 1/

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She started doing random shit. No joke. But then I asked her to play my mix she scared the crap out of me by telling me the definition of the word please! I swear to God! THEN, And, not making this up, I said "Alexa you're freaking me out" & she fucking laughed!

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I didn't even know she laughed. I swear to you it was the scariest shit I ever heard. Needless to say I unplugged my Echo and it is now sitting in the bottom of s box--away from me. What's really weird is that I logged on tell you guys and Betty had just retweeted me.

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Lying in bed about to fall asleep when Alexa on my Amazon Echo Dot lets out a very loud and creepy laugh... there’s a good chance I get murdered tonight.

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Me: dead silent Alexa, unprompted: “what’s that massive fireball streaking across the sky” ☄️

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Having an office conversation about pretty confidential stuff and Alexa just laughed. Anybody else ever have that? It didn't chime as if we had accidentally triggered her to wake. She simply just laughed. It was really creepy.

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