{"id":34210,"date":"2021-12-29T11:09:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T16:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insiderpaper.com\/?p=34210"},"modified":"2021-12-29T11:09:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T16:09:36","slug":"alexa-tells-girl-to-touch-live-plug-with-penny-amazon-fixes-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insiderpaper.com\/alexa-tells-girl-to-touch-live-plug-with-penny-amazon-fixes-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa tells girl to touch live plug with penny, Amazon fixes bug"},"content":{"rendered":"
Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant has been updated after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch<\/a> a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.<\/p>\n The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for<\/a> a “challenge to do,” according to the BBC.<\/p>\n “Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs,” the smart speaker said.<\/p>\n Amazon stated that it corrected the error as soon as it became aware of it.<\/p>\n Kristin Livdahl, the girl’s mother, described the incident on Twitter.<\/p>\n “We were doing some physical challenges, like laying down and rolling over holding a shoe on your foot, from a (physical education) teacher on YouTube earlier<\/a>. Bad weather outside. She just wanted another one,” she said.<\/p>\n That’s when the Echo speaker suggested taking part in the challenge, which it had “found on the web,” according to the report.<\/p>\n The perilous activity, dubbed “the penny challenge,” first appeared on TikTok and<\/a> other social media platforms about a year ago.<\/p>\n Inserting metals into live electrical sockets can result in electric<\/a> shocks, fires, and other damage.<\/p>\n In a statement, Amazon told the BBC that it had updated Alexa to prevent the assistant from recommending such activity in the future.<\/p>\n