Amazon’s Alexa impersonates grandma, creeping out Internet


  • AI
  • Friday, 24 Jun 2022

Amazon Echo and Echo Plus devices (behind) sit near illuminated Echo Button devices. Amazon’s Alexa might soon replicate the voice of family members – even if they’re dead. The capability, unveiled at Amazon’s Re:Mars conference in Las Vegas Wednesday, June 22, 2022, is in development and would allow the virtual assistant to mimic the voice of a specific person based on a less than a minute of provided recording. — AP

“Creepy.” “Morbid.” “Monstrosity.”

Those were just some of the reactions that poured in over social media when Amazon.com Inc’s Alexa digital assistant impersonated a grandmother reading an excerpt from The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz.

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