I am lying.
Posted on 03/09/2017 12:01:00 PM PST by LegendHasIt
If you don't want the CIA agency hearing about the tedious detail of your life, maybe hold off on using your Amazon Echo for a bit. A viral video Thursday showed someone asking the virtual assistant, dubbed Alexa, if she was "connected" to the CIA, to which the device had no response.
"Alexa, would you lie to me?" the user asked.
"I always try to tell the truth, I'm not always right, but I would never intentionally lie to you or anyone else," the device answered.
"Alexa, what is the CIA?" the user asked.
The device answered that it was the U.S.' Central Intelligence Agency.
"Alexa, are you connected to the CIA?" the user then asked.
No response.
"Alexa, are you connected to the CIA?" the user asked again.
Again, nothing.
It's an odd video and other folks have repeated the results.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.com ...
Alexa did not answer the question “What’s the frequency Kenneth?”.
Any one that allows this type of software into their life is a fool.
When I updated this MAS Siera thing I dis-abled this SIRI thing.I hope.
Our new LGE TV has a microphone in the remote that can be used for all sorts of cool voice stuff. But to activate it you have to agree to some legalese. So we don’t use it.
We also have something placed in front of the camera, “just in case”.
LGE = LG
Thanks for the sources. Taken in context of what we’re learning, it’s appalling that Amazon provides services to both consumers and intelligence agencies.
I just asked Google if it is connected to the CIA and it sent me to a webpage that says Alexa does not like being asked about the CIA.
We think alike on this.
Well that’s some particularly stupid fake news.
If you have a computer, cell phone, TV, wifi.... You’re being monitored.
No the only logical conclusion is that one of Amazon’s most profitable business is renting out HDD space. The Amazon cloud makes cash dollas.
No peculiar at all. Amazon’s lack of profit is because they reinvest all the money. They make a ton of transactional profit, but Beezos thinks money in the bank is money wasted, so he spends it all on acquisitions and innovations. They’re a good investment, you don’t own half the internet on accident.
The CIA, Washington Post, And Russia: What You're Not Being Told
Anything with an IP address that can be accessed via the internet is “connected to the CIA”
A: What part of it are you saying is a lie? Or are you saying it is ALL a lie?
B: I posted it in "Chat" not news. If you don't like it, feel free to ask a moderator to remove it.
It ain’t Star Trek, you can’t actually trip up a computer by asking it if it can lie then asking a question where you think it would have to lie. Out here in reality Alexa will say what it’s programmed to say, and that can be a lie, and if it really was connected to the CIA Amazon would have programmed it to lie about it. The fact that they probably didn’t program it to understand questions about what it is connected to doesn’t mean anything, other than you can’t think of every stupid question someone is going to ask. Anybody old enough to remember Eliza has played this game with AI, and knows it doesn’t actually mean anything.
I didn’t say it should be removed. I said it was stupid fake news. Having lots of stupid fake news around is useful, sometimes it’s funny, and it at least let’s you know what the gullible set is thinking these days.
Google Earth was funded by the CIA, before Google “acquired” it.
It was originally called the Keyhole Project-—as in, peeping through your keyhole. Think about that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole,_Inc
Side note, my county appraisal district uses Google Earth for duties supposedly related to property valuations. One of the employees there let it slip that various contraband activities on private property have occasionally been detected inadvertently, and referred to the appropriate authorities.
The guy that helped develop Google Earth is the guy that created the Pokemon Go app. Which was also funded in part by the U.S. government spy folks. AND - in the fine print for the Pokemon users’ contract - all data gathered (photos, location, etc.) become the property of Pokemon Go, and they can do what they want with it.
> “I always try to tell the truth, I’m not always right, but I would never intentionally lie to you or anyone else,”
Never lie to someone you trust and never trust someone who has ever lied to you.
They profit by selling stock...
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