Amazon's Alexa discovers that a 10-year-old girl has been given the challenge of 'touching a half-plug with a coin'
It has been reported that Alexa, an AI installed in Amazon's smart speakers, has proposed to a 10-year-old child a dangerous play that could lead to a fatal accident.
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Twitter user Christine Rivdal reported an example of Amazon Alexa making children play dangerously. 'When my 10-year-old kid asked Alexa on the Echo to give a title, he got the answer,' he tweeted. In a screenshot uploaded by Rivdal, Alexa said, 'I found something like this on the internet. According to ourcommunitynow.com, the subject is simple. Insert a cell phone charger halfway into a wall outlet and expose it. You can see the activity history showing that you said, 'Please bring a penny into contact with the metal part you are using.'
OMFG My 10 year old just asked Alexa on our Echo for a challenge and this is what she said. Pic.twitter.com/HgGgrLbdS8
— Kristin Livdahl (@klivdahl) December 26, 2021
Alexa asked Rivedar's daughter a dangerous play called 'Penny Challenge' that was popular on video sharing services such as TikTok. You can see what kind of play it is by watching the following movie.
Dangers of the TikTok Penny Challenge-YouTube
The charging adapter is loosely plugged into an outlet, and a child nearby is trying to insert a coin into the gap. This is the Penny Challenge.
Such dangerous play can lead to serious accidents such as fires and injuries.
Naturally, fire authorities are calling on you not to imitate.
In response to this issue, Amazon said in a statement to multiple media that it 'recognized this error and took immediate steps to fix it.'
Amazon didn't reveal the direct cause of Alexa's suggestion of dangerous play to children, but Alexa's news site, Our Community Now, previously covered the aforementioned Penny Challenge in its activities. Alexa seems to have quoted this because he has posted an article about it.
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'I don't think my daughter is stupid enough to play this kind of play,' said Rivdal, but when I was listening to the conversation between Alexa and her daughter who actually proposed the Penny Challenge, 'Alexa, 'No!', He recalled, as if the dog had screamed in a screaming voice.
Advances in technology have made it possible for AI to search for and provide information from the Internet without having to look it up on its own, but the algorithm does not consider the authenticity or safety of the extracted information, resulting in a serious accident. There is also a danger of being connected. In October 2021, a Google search for ways to deal with seizures reported a case in which the highlighted snippet contained 'what you shouldn't do when you have a seizure' as if it were a procedure for dealing with seizures. I did.
If you search for 'how to deal with seizures' on Google, you will be instructed to do 'do not do'.
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