“Alexa, please don’t kill me.”
That’s a thing you’ll have to tell you Amazon Echo in the near future if we continue down this path. Alexa users are reporting that their robot designed to turn off the lights is giving a creepy laugh at the most random moments.
WHY DID MY ALEXA JUST LAUGH OUT OF THE BLUE?!?!?!?
— Kyle Fitzy (@kylefitzy8) March 4, 2018
Lying in bed about to fall asleep when Alexa on my Amazon Echo Dot lets out a very loud and creepy laugh… there’s a good chance I get murdered tonight.
— Gavin Hightower (@GavinHightower) February 26, 2018
Having an office conversation about pretty confidential stuff and Alexa just laughed. Anybody else ever have that?
It didn't chime as if we had accidentally triggered her to wake. She simply just laughed. It was really creepy.
— David Woodland (@DavidSven) March 1, 2018
Replying bc THIS creepy thing happened last night: we got home and, totally unprompted, our Amazon Echo/Alexa started talking. And then i realized it was listing off local cemeteries and funeral homes??? I'd rather it laugh at me tbh
— Kameaux (@HeyItsKamo) March 7, 2018
unprompted, my alexa just said "sure, I can laugh: tee hee" and I'm moving out now
— daniel (@ddanielclemens) March 7, 2018
Jimmy Kimmel tried to get to the bottom of things, but didn’t have much luck.
And this is why I’ll never become so lazy that I can’t get up to flip a switch myself. In a statement released to The Verge, Amazon said, “We’re aware of this and working to fix it.”
If you want more great stories of Alexa coming to life to scare you, you can check out the subreddit on the issue. Or, go out and get yourself an Echo or Dot and try it out on your own. If nothing else, someone will always be around to laugh at your jokes.
My husband bought us an Alexa Dot and I hate that freaking thing.