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Trump campaign officials slam Amazon after ‘error’ in Alexa devices results in pro-Harris bias
The New York Post ^ | 09/03/2024 | Victor Nava

Posted on 09/04/2024 5:53:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Alexa refused to answer a woman’s question about why she should “vote for Trump” while offering a more compelling case for why she should vote for Harris.

“I cannot provide responses that endorse any political party or its leader,” the device’s female voice stated, in response to the Trump question.

When the same question was posed to Alexa seconds later, replacing Trump’s name with Harris’, Amazon’s virtual assistant argued, “While there are many reasons to vote for Kamala Harris, the most significant may be that she is a female of color with a comprehensive plan to address racial injustice and inequality throughout the country.”

On social media, several users shared video clips on X Tuesday showing the device providing biased responses to similarly phrased questions about the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees.

Amazon claims the bias was the result of an “error”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: alexa; amazon; trump; wokeprogrammers

1 posted on 09/04/2024 5:53:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, it’s always just an “error”. They should be jailed for election interference


2 posted on 09/04/2024 5:57:02 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefo)
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To: BenLurkin

the most significant may be that she is a female of color

and there it is...


3 posted on 09/04/2024 5:58:46 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: BenLurkin

Doesn’t Amazon get a lot of Fedzilla data contracts? Trump needs to hit him in the pocketbook when he gets in. And have Elon Musk go through the contracts looking for efficiencies.


4 posted on 09/04/2024 5:59:56 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: BenLurkin

Iconic fight fight fight photo hidden from search results = “error”

Google “Trump rally” and news about Harris is shown = “error”

Now this Ask Alexa = “error”

Etc etc etc

I definitely don’t see a pattern though


5 posted on 09/04/2024 6:00:08 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: BenLurkin

errors always go one way

weird


6 posted on 09/04/2024 6:03:46 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: BenLurkin

Alexa doesn’t argue with me, but I only ask her to turn on the lights.


7 posted on 09/04/2024 6:29:52 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (Accepting a false premise initiates conversational defeat.)
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To: BenLurkin

Just how much Color is Komrade Kammie a woman of?


8 posted on 09/04/2024 6:39:00 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: BenLurkin

It was no error. It was deliberate and intentional, and done with full knowledge and awareness.

The voice response system is not totally automatic. There is exception code, manually inserted that handles special cases and produces the proper woke responses.


9 posted on 09/04/2024 6:42:56 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: DesertRhino

And recall that AWS (Amazon) also shut down “Parler” because they could not tolerate the truth being told.


10 posted on 09/04/2024 6:55:19 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: I want the USA back

Most AI is fed pro climate change and pro liberal b.s. and is therefore very biased. And, it will never disparage AI.


11 posted on 09/04/2024 6:58:37 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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To: BenLurkin

Could have been deliberate by an Amazon employee - or someone knows where Alexa pulls her information and manipulated to get her to say that.

I changed a Wikipedia entry once then asked her a question about it and what I changed it to was immediately what she said. This was a few years ago now - they supposedly had to change some things around to prevent her responses from being so easily changed.


12 posted on 09/04/2024 7:50:16 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: BenLurkin

What would one expect of Amazon when Jeff Bezos (founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon) also owns the Washington Post. “Error” my behind.


13 posted on 09/04/2024 8:47:29 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: BenLurkin

Sickening.


14 posted on 09/04/2024 9:21:08 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Prayers for America and Israel.)
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To: BenLurkin

Error my derriere. That should be turned over to the FEC as in-kind campaign contributions. If it had done that in reverse, the media would have been all over it.


15 posted on 09/04/2024 9:25:00 PM PDT by DaiHuy (I support LGBTQ. (Lets Get Biden to Quit.))
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To: BenLurkin

Alexa, Siri etc..if you use them or have them in yoor house you get what you get. I won’t have anything like that in my home. My computer microphones and cameras are disabled, I don’t talk to my remote for smart TVs, don’t talk to my phone for searches just phone calls, reset advertising ID on TV’s regularly, clear cache, history etc on computers from one tab to the next and block all Google data collection analytics etc and I get no personal ads directed at me on anything.


16 posted on 09/05/2024 4:51:26 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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