Associated Incidents
SHOCKING video has emerged showing Amazon’s Alexa bombarding a toddler with crude porno messages.
Footage shows a little boy talking into an Amazon Echo Dot gadget as family members watch on.
YouTube/f0t0b0y 4 Footage shows the little boy talking into an Amazon Echo Dot
YouTube/f0t0b0y 4 The toddler asks the gadget to 'play digger digger'
Speaking to the virtual assistant tool known as Alexa, the boy asks it to “play Digger Digger”.
But instead of the children’s song, the device turns the air blue by spouting back a string of crude words.
Alexa can be heard saying: "You want to hear a station for 'Porn detected.... Porno ringtone hot chick amateur girl calling sexy f*** c*** sh** sex ck puy anal dildo'."
At first, the adults in the room say nothing, presumably in shock at what they are hearing.
After an initial delay, they can be heard shouting “No! No! No! Alexa, stop!”
The little lad looks up at the camera, seemingly confused, as Alexa goes silent.
A male voice can then be heard chuckling in the brief moment before the camera is switched off.
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The parents of the boy uploaded the video to YouTube where it has since got 3.4million hits in just two days.
Some people commenting on the video speculated that the device was reeling off the internet search history, incriminating one of the adults.
But it has since emerged Alexa was reading out the name of a spoof ringtone for Android phones on Spotify entitled: "Porn Detected! (Porno Ringtone Hot Chick Amateur Girl Calling Sexy F*** C*** Sh** Sex Ck Puy Anal Dildo)."
YouTube/f0t0b0y 4 Alexa replies with a string of crude words, prompting shock
YouTube/f0t0b0y 4 The adults rush to shut Alexa down before she says anything more to the boy
A spokesperson for Amazon told the Daily Mail the company had contacted the family to say sorry.
She said: "This issue has been fixed and we are working to build additional restrictions to prevent this from happening in the future."
Sun Online has also contacted Amazon for comment.
A string of similar incidents – this time involving a talking children’s toy – were reported earlier this week.
Parents have claimed one of this year’s must-have Christmas toys, Hatchimals, have been swearing at them, saying "f**k me".
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