Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live electrical socket with penny

AppleInsider
Dec 29, 2021, 3:54 pm581 pts
A child requesting a challenge from an Amazon Alexa device was told to "plug in a phone charger about halfway, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs." Alexa is a smart assistant on the Amazon Echo The dangerous search result appeared thanks to something called "the penny challenge" going viral on TikTok…

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