March 9, 2017
Alexa Connected To The CIA? Amazon Echo Tripped Up By User's Question
By Tim Marcin @TimMarcin On 03/09/17
IBtimes.com
If you don't want the CIA agency hearing about the tedious detail of your life, maybe hold off on using your Amazon Echo for a bit. A viral video Thursday showed someone asking the virtual assistant, dubbed Alexa, if she was "connected" to the CIA, to which the device had no response.
"Alexa, would you lie to me?" the user asked.
"I always try to tell the truth, I'm not always right, but I would never intentionally lie to you or anyone else," the device answered.
"Alexa, what is the CIA?" the user asked.
The device answered that it was the U.S.' Central Intelligence Agency.
"Alexa, are you connected to the CIA?" the user then asked.
No response.
"Alexa, are you connected to the CIA?" the user asked again.
Again, nothing.
It's an odd video and other folks have repeated the results.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpDzW7YlgsQ
Madeline Buxton ‎@MadelineBuxton
Tried it for myself — and I'm officially creeped out
12:21 PM - 9 Mar 2017
Amid WikiLeaks releasing purported CIA documents that revealed it could hack into phones and TVs to spy on devices worldwide, the viral video has, of course, spawned conspiracy theories. The Next Web collected responses from other virtual assistants and they were similarly eerie, including "Me, I don't know" and "I can't answer that."
One commenter, however, had an interesting theory that they thought "what's happening here is that when she asks 'Are you connected to 'The CIA'?' Alexa (Amazon Echo) is interpreting that as an attempt to get her to connect to a device labeled 'The CIA' which she is failing to find." Others have come up with the same theory on Reddit.
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