Parents are learning the hard way to protect their Amazon accounts from kids.
Please consider Move Over, Santa! Kids Are Asking Alexa to Bring Them Presents.
Zibby Owens was in therapy a few months ago when her phone started buzzing with notifications. They were texts from Amazon confirming that several “Paw Patrol” toys were en route to her house. “It was one after another,” said Ms. Owens, a New York-based podcast host.
She said she had allowed her son, then 4, to use her iPad while she was getting ready that morning. It had an Amazon.com shopping app on it. Her little boy figured out how to touch the microphone icon in the search bar in the Amazon app and say “Paw Patrol.” Amazon’s voice assistant, Alexa, obeyed, bringing up numerous toys from the popular children’s show. The little boy managed to add more than a dozen items to the cart and tap “buy.”
Paw Patrol and a Tesla
I Wanted a Tesla, Not Pants
The stories are a riot.
One set of parents was wondering why the other ordered Tesla pants when their 5-year old son walked in and said “That’s not what I ordered. I wanted a Tesla.”
My Question to Alexa
“Alexa, how many kids are ordering toys for themselves through you?“
Alexa did not know.
I then asked her who will be in the next Democratic debate. I expected Alexa to know that but she said “Sorry, I don’t know that.“
Undaunted, I asked “Alexa, how many times have people asked to marry you?“
She replied “I found an article on that. 9 times people asked to marry me.”
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Not many people have seen 2001 a space odessy where …HAL takes over, and refuses to obey…Arthur C Clarke saw that coming, among other things…
I once asked her something about Trump and added an epithet to his name, she condemned me with a single word; LANGUAGE.
At first that might sound innocent enough, but think about it, when computers take on the role of making moral decisions FOR us and then repremanding you, even if it just starts out as a sort of scolding tone.
I sy yet another slippery slope. When will the computer police be reporting you for what you say in the privacy of your own home? When will they take it upon themselves to punish you for infractions they have decided need to be addressed?
Ironic isn’t it. An Orwellian nightmare unfolding before our very eyes and the sheeple are voluntarily inviting it into their homes. People are not very bright.
Consumer debit. It’s new form of equal opportunity enslaver. Yes, credit cards, and general consumer debit is the new form of slavery. And you all willingly sign up for it. Then one day, you wake up and realize most of your pay check is going to pay off the slavers.
Anybody bring an Alexa to me and I’l finish it off with the claw end of a hammer. “Alexa, I feel great, how ’bout you”?
I find it amazingly stupid that anyone would bring these eavesdropping devices into their home and it is a sign of peak laziness on the part of the adults.
The kids should be ordering Gold – not worthless Chinese junk.
By the time gold becomes ‘en vogue’ again, it’ll be maxing out credit cards all over the country – that’s if anyone has it for sale. And if credit cards even work anymore.
What the heck? Why do YOU have Alexa?
“What do you think Linda”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTWTjRiXDEI
Amazon is all about rise of the machines. Bezos looks like Dr. Evil. Years ago my niece found out how to order via the Amazon app at the age of 8 or 9. Online ordering has separated the concept of paying money for stuff and just having it show up at your door. Much of American debt addiction can be traced to the internet and mobile smartphones.
That’s a far too easy answer. Americans had debt issues far before there were smart phones and before the internet. Those haven’t helped, of course, but the problem runs deeper than that, to not having a clue about things like budgeting, and the long term cost of debt.
Well, you could say that Americans take after their government when it comes to debt. To infinity and beyond!
I’d actually say the reverse, that Americans have made their government finances like their personal finances. Americans don’t have any concept of living within a budget, so they vote for people who have the same problem.
It’s a chicken and egg question at this point. The bankers have the biggest problem of all and they’re unelected. Same with the Pentagon, corporations engaging in buybacks, etc.
It’s almost like these insane debt loads are intentional, or something.
It has more to do with globalization of upper middle and middle income jobs. Americas didnt have debt issues until their jobs went away and health care and college costs kept rising. No amount of budgeting can help if you if you dont have consistent income over a long time.
Now that is really deep!
My kids want land.
Have fun!