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Overheard a guy at the coffee shop say his smart speaker heard him snoring and ordered a CPAP machine on its own
He was dead serious, said Alexa picked up the snoring pattern during a nap and added a $300 device to his cart. I asked if he actually bought it, and he just shrugged and said "it showed up two days later." Has anyone else had their tech go rogue like that?
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simons2819d ago
Used to roll my eyes at people saying their devices were listening in on them. This story actually has me rethinking that stance because it makes a weird kind of sense if the AI is programmed to notice health stuff. Still creepy that a machine can just order expensive medical gear without you touching a button though.
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hannahs4519d ago
Yeah but @simons28, how many times have we heard stories like this and it turns out the person was misremembering or the device wasn't even on. People swear their phones are listening but nobody can ever prove it. This one article says a machine ordered something but really, it could just be a coincidence or bad reporting. I bet there's a ton of context missing here. Not saying it's impossible, just that I need more than one viral story to believe my toaster is diagnosing me.
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