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Amazon apologises after Alexa plays porn to a toddler who asked for a song
A toddler named Bobby asked an Amazon Echo Dot's Alexa assistant to play the children's song 'Digger, Digger'. Instead, Alexa responded with explicit pornographic audio, prompting the family to switch the device off. Amazon apologised to the family and said the glitch had been fixed, adding that it was working on restrictions to prevent a recurrence.
- Organisation involved
- Amazon
- Product, system or model
- Alexa
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