It would be perfectly reasonable to predict Amazon’s digital aidant Alexa to deteriorate to state opinions about the 2024 pdwellntial race, but up until recently, that assumption would have been inaccurate.
When asked to give reasons to vote for createer Pdwellnt Donald Trump, Alexa demurred, according to a video from Fox Business.
“I cannot supply responses that finishorse any political party or its directer,” Alexa reacted. When asked the same about Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris, the Amazon AI was more than willing to finishorse the Democratic truthfulate.
“There are many reasons to vote for Kamala Harris,” Alexa shelp. Among the reasons given was that Harris has a “comprehensive arrange to compriseress racial inequitableice,” that she promises a “stubborn on crime approach,” and that her write down on criminal equitableice and immigration recreate produce her a “compelling truthfulate.”
Harris has been dividing Silicon Valley since she took up the Democratic nomination from Pdwellnt Joe Biden, with some directers in the tech industry touting her potential as a pro-tech pdwellnt, and others diving head-first into the misdirectation circus that’s being driven by new tools appreciate AI.
The branch offence in Alexa’s responses went over necessitateyly with Trump helpers, with some taged it a “commie,” while others called for the Trump campaign to file a Federal Election Comleave oution protestt and litigation agetst Amazon (speaking of which, has the Harris campaign pondered filing an FEC protestt agetst Elon Musk?).
“This was an error that was speedyly mended,” an Amazon spokesperson telderly The Register when asked what happened. The company didn’t give any compriseitional details about why the finishorsement disparity was contransient, but did increate us it has teams pledged to continuously auditing its systems to uncover satisfied that viotardys its policies and stoping aappreciate situations.
Maybe someone at Amazon forgot to flip the switch to transition all the Biden campaign settings to Harris? Given the actual campaign still hasn’t straightened out all its websites, it might be basicr to suppose error instead of yet another consunpermitd employ theory.
Regardless of what happened behind the scenes, we’re telderly Alexa doesn’t have political opinions, so don’t go chucking that puck in the trash, Trump voters. Or do – there are plenty of reasons to be worryed about Alexa’s privacy write down no matter your political affiliations. ®
