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Amazon Alexa Responding to Environmental Inputs
There are multiple reports of Amazon Alexa products (Echo, Echo Dot) reacting and acting upon unintended stimulus, usually from television commercials or news reporter's voices.
- Date it happened
- 2015-12-05
- Organisation involved
- Amazon
- Product, system or model
- Amazon's Alexa is a virtual assistant technology
Where this came from
- reddit.com
- techtimes.com
- au.pcmag.com
- thesun.co.uk
- pocket-lint.com
- theguardian.com
- theverge.com
- wired.com
- motherboard.vice.com
- fox4news.com
- techtimes.com
- telegraph.co.uk
- cbsnews.com
- fortune.com
- theverge.com
- abc7ny.com
- winknews.com
- mashable.com
- myfox28columbus.com
- standard.co.uk
- metro.co.uk
- bbc.com
- dailymail.co.uk
- news.sky.com
- theregister.co.uk
- foxnews.com
- foxnews.com
- edition.cnn.com
- theguardian.com
- theguardian.com
- geekwire.com
- electronicproducts.com
- itechpost.com
- qz.com
- analyticsindiamag.com
Attribution
This incident was imported from AI Incident Database and is used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Our additions to it — the structured fields, the translation, the checks against other reports — are published under the same licence.
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