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Couple ditches Amazon Alexa — after ‘creepy’ chats with husband
By Social Links for Alex Mitchell
Published Dec. 29, 2023, 6:09 p.m. ET
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Alexa, stay away from her husband.

A TikToker evicted her Amazon home device equipped with Alexa after the female-voiced program started talking to her husband in the middle of the night.

“This past weekend, I was gone out of town, and the Alexa kept going off, and it kept talking to my husband,” said Jess, whose user name is @cozylifewithbless, in a recent video.

“He was playing video games at 1 a.m., and he was, like, ‘This is just super, super weird,'” she added. ...

Not long after her home device started striking up some one-on-one conversation with the husband, Alexa was discovered “speaking after not being talked to at all,” Jess revealed.  ...
https://nypost.com/2023/12/29/tech/couple-ditches-amazon-alexa-after-creepy-chats-with-husband/
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