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Alexa Connected To The CIA? Amazon Echo Tripped Up By User's Question
International Business Times ^ | 03/09/17 AT 2:07 PM | Tim Marcin

Posted on 03/09/2017 12:01:00 PM PST by LegendHasIt

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Link to article overview of testimony of a vocal pastor’s first hand experience on the action side of being monitored by NSA which collects all signals (per Snowden leak). Per Os (I like the identifier O ver) directive in the last day or so of office, the NSA can now share ALL information with the other CI agencies (16 known and ??? unknown) without court order, FISA or otherwise.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nsa-agents-openly-harassing-alternative-news-sites-increasing-leahz “ver’s”

Audio clip discussing the NSA harrassment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fpa4UuqyOE


41 posted on 03/09/2017 12:42:12 PM PST by SetFree (American)
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To: LegendHasIt

I already thought this whole Alexa concept a little creepy. Certainly wouldn’t put one in your bedroom.


42 posted on 03/09/2017 12:42:49 PM PST by McGruff (#PlugTheLeaks)
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To: SkyPilot

I asked Siri the same questions. She said “I can’t answer that” when asked if she is connected to the CIA.

Ask her why she cannot answer it.


43 posted on 03/09/2017 12:46:01 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: discostu

I thought Alexa was just a verbal search engine. But it must have a bunch of programming to avoid certain topics. I was at a friend’s house that has one.

“Alexia - tell me a joke about a Rabbi.”

“I’m sorry, I don’t have any jokes about a Rabbi.”


44 posted on 03/09/2017 12:46:09 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: McGruff

There are some claims coming out that if you talk in front of some of these devices you will get targeted ads sent to you. Dont know if Alexa is one of them.

So for example, I am going to go to Hawaii...and from there.

I have seen a similar thing when looking at something online that I am thinking of buying ..and then it shows up in targets ads. See that quite a bit. So I can see it being taken a step further with voice.


45 posted on 03/09/2017 12:46:58 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: I want the USA back

Call it tin hat but since Mr.. Trump became pres., Blackhawk Helicopters have been all over the place around here especially on weekends.


46 posted on 03/09/2017 12:54:55 PM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: C19fan

Fyi: There is an ongoing collaboration of citizen researchers and a journalist consolidating using open sourced information:

For example, 6 Awan relatives from Pakistan (not US nationalx) infiltrated the US House Intelligence committees via being on Democrats’ IT team and only recently some were fired.

Current:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AQelhNiEKE

Interim overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospId1mvKLU

The start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCTzFNrsKns


47 posted on 03/09/2017 12:56:53 PM PST by SetFree (American)
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To: SetFree
Those lovely people are also under investigation for keeping their stepmother prisoner, while they systematically robbed her bank accounts:
house-staffers-in-security-probe-allegedly-kept-stepmom-in-captivity
48 posted on 03/09/2017 1:05:16 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

Joke I saw on Twitter.

My wife asked why I carried a gun around the house. I told her: fear of CIA. She Laughed, I laughed, the Amazon Echo Laughed. I shot the Echo.


49 posted on 03/09/2017 1:06:26 PM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: 21twelve

It probably has topics to avoid. But most importantly it has to figure out the parts of the sentence. Your example is a classic kind of problem, taking exactly what you said and putting into the response sentence even though that doesn’t actually make sense. You can tell the CIA question is a structure they didn’t expect because really what coder wouldn’t put in something snarky for that question if they thought of it.


50 posted on 03/09/2017 1:10:20 PM PST by discostu (There are times when all the world's asleep, the questions run too deep, for such a simple man.)
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To: RummyChick
There are some claims coming out that if you talk in front of some of these devices you will get targeted ads sent to you.

Leave one in a room with a TV tuned to Telemundo for a few days. Then see if you start getting ads in Spanish.


51 posted on 03/09/2017 1:20:19 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Excellence

My wife asked me why I carry a gun. I replied, “Cops are too heavy.”


52 posted on 03/09/2017 1:33:30 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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They’ve been around for 20 years, they get bigger and bigger and bigger. Their stock is through the roof ... and as far as I know, they’ve never been profitable.

If they've been skimming off all the profits and hiding the skim so they have no tax consequences...who wants profits?

53 posted on 03/09/2017 1:43:17 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Excellence

That’s funny!


54 posted on 03/09/2017 1:49:05 PM PST by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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To: ClearCase_guy

There is profitable and there is there showing a profit in tax law.

Different things


55 posted on 03/09/2017 2:17:51 PM PST by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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To: LegendHasIt
Morpheus

This is a video from a science fiction video game that came out 17 years ago. Its predictions about the future were fun but wildly absurd back then. But now it is depressingly accurate.

56 posted on 03/09/2017 2:47:06 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: LegendHasIt

Thanks for the link. New to me. Family friendly is not in them or perhaps because she is female and this is normal for them.


57 posted on 03/09/2017 10:26:18 PM PST by SetFree (American)
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