Alexa tells a 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny. We investigate.
that hours after the whole story broke, a user under the name SU told Alexa how to answer the question"What is the penny challenge". The answer - the same as in the video.
Although what happened with the penny challenge is free publicity, since media from all around the world wrote about it, the story might have a negative effect on potential Alexa buyers. For instance, Just like Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri can pull answers from any corner of the internet, social media platforms like TikTok or Facebook can also show teenagers content that's"appealing" to them as a demographic. A big challenge for companies like Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook is to filter out potentially harmful content.
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