USA:Alexa challenged a girl, 10, to put a COIN on an exposed plug prong half-inserted
 

[Amazon apologizes after an Alexa challenged
a girl, 10, to put a COIN on an exposed plug
prong half-inserted into a socket as part
of a 'dangerous' TikTok trend
An Echo voice assistant challenge a 10-year-old to
do a potentially fatal act
Assistant told a child to do the
'Penny challenge' and 'Plug in a phone charger
about halfway into a wall outlet,
then touch a penny to the exposed prongs'
Kristin Livdahl, the girl's mother slammed Amazon,
who has since apologised]


https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/02...0826999936.jpg
[The internet game involves plugging
a charger part-way into a wall and
trying to create a spark by touching the
exposed prongs with a coin
(pictured: An outlet following the challenge)]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ongs-plug.html

Alexa searches the internet
TikTok has loads of Dumb and Dangerous examples.


Debated on all media


Amazon USA claim they have fixed it.

Yikes!

Conclusive proof that alexas are evil. I feel vindicated, in my being the only person I know not having one.

Amazon Engineers have fixed that.


It appears it searched the internet for Fun
and a Crazy TikTok post had it,
leading as top of the fun things.


A Lawyer who does an LBC show
said the problem is Alexa does not
care what age you are.


The mother was Horrified