Alexa's advice to 'kill your foster parents' fuels concern over Amazon Echo
by Erin Durkin in New York and agencies from Technology | The Guardian on (#45HAT)
Smart speaker's remarks, apparently quoted from Reddit, come as Amazon tries to boost speaker's conversational capacity
An Amazon customer got a grim message last year from Alexa, the virtual assistant in the company's smart speaker device: "Kill your foster parents."
The user who heard the message from his Echo device wrote a harsh review on Amazon's website, Reuters reported - calling Alexa's utterance "a whole new level of creepy".
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