SAN FRANCISCO ¨C Millions of users of Amazon¡¯s Echo speakers have grown accustomed to the soothing strains of Alexa, the human-sounding virtual assistant that can tell them the weather, order takeout and handle other basic tasks in response to a voice command.
So a customer was shocked last year when Alexa blurted out: ¡°Kill your foster parents.¡±
Alexa has also chatted with users about sex acts. She gave a discourse on dog defecation. And this summer, a hack Amazon traced back to China may have exposed some customers¡¯ data, according to five people familiar with the events.
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