My partner and I were having sex in our bedroom when we noticed that our Alexa device (an Echo Spot) suddenly displayed a big red heart on the screen. We didn’t say anything, didn’t use the wake word “Alexa,” and we weren’t playing music or anything like that.
Does anyone know why this happened?
Is it just a random screensaver animation? Or… did it hear us and decide to show some love?
We laughed, but also got a little paranoid. Is there a way to check what Alexa heard around that time?
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I would get rid of that thing for sure
Perhaps it’s time to put Alexa in the other room.
This is why I don’t have an Alexa.
I try to ignore that my phone does exactly the same thing (without the heart, fortunately).
Oh hell no.
Maybe try asking it why it was displaying the heart.
Then, regardless of the answer, drop kick it to the curb.
We got s❤️x positive AI before Gta 6 smh
Okay, we figured it out.
Turns out if you say “I love you” (or in Spanish, “me encantas”), Alexa responds with a little animation — and in the case of the Echo Show, it shows a big heart on the screen.
Check the app for history of triggers.
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Alexa devices can now listen to anything at all, without your approval.
Alexa: ✨👁️👄👁️✨
Shoot that fucking thing.
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Title alarmed me. Clicked and read; am still alarmed, but for a different reason.
Don’t fuck your alexas, kids.
Brag post
As a someone who build software for a living, I will NEVER own an IOT device. No smart home, no smart fridge, no exceptions. I have a cellphone and a smart TV and that’s it. And frankly, the TV is pushing it.
“Paranoid”. Don’t be. It says vary clearly in the TOS that alexa is CONSTANTLY listening. As well as recording. Request your data from Amazon and look at just how much audio they really have on you. It’s A LOT. Without even a hint if the activation word.
I made garlic bread the other day. Didn’t talk about it, didn’t mention “garlic” or “bread” in the vicinity of the device, turned around and on the screen was a suggested recipe for…garlic bread.
I put a sticker over the camera.
I thought dude figured out how to fuck an Alexa before I read the summary 💀
George Orwell’s book 1984 should be required reading for all high school students
Burn that thing immediately and never look back.
OP, your wiretap agent just wanted to let you know that they enjoy getting off to the sound of you two screwing, it’s nothing to be concerned with, probably.
One night she randomly started playing a recording of a conversation my boyfriend and I had had in the room the night before.
When she stopped I asked her “Alexa. What did you just do?” And she just made the bububup noise like she didn’t understand but said nothing.
10/10 did not enjoy.
Alexa was just letting know, it was good for her too.
The second they announced they would be screening everything with AI now and recording I got rid of mine.
Why is my spying device spying on me?
What in the Blackmirror
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid you’re gonna have to do that again”
Stop using Alexa. Seriously get that shit out of your house.
https://www.cnet.com/home/security/a-privacy-ultimatum-starts-today-let-amazon-echo-process-your-data-or-stop-using-it/
smart speakers are surveillance devices. get rid of it.
Better than it displaying “7.5/10”
Because your video is trending on pornhub
It knows when you are sleeping, it knows when you’re awake…
It knows if you’ve been naughty or nice…
So THROW IT AWAY FOR FUCKS SAKE ITS SPYING ON YOU QUICK UNPLUG IT
My sister got a smart bed that tracks your sleep quality and she said the morning after they did the deed, their sleep report just said “yeehaw!”
Jeff Bezos was watching you go at it through the camera, and approved your technique.
Why are people still keeping these smart devices in their homes?
As an IT dude my biggest nightmare is these stuff, I’m keeping my house as “dumb” as possible.
Alexa has a microphone, that microphone isn’t only activated when you say the wake up word, it’s always activated. The device itself just won’t speak unless you use the wake up word but it’s ALWAYS listening. You ever notice that you get ads for things you never looked up but were just talking about? That’s because the microphones around you (phone, tv, alexa) are listening and recording.
It’s wild that people will willingly pay for and install spyware in their own homes.
Amazon of course claims that Alexa doesn’t listen to anything without the “wake word,” but there have been several incidents that cast doubt on that and make it seem more likely that Alexa is either always listening in or interprets a lot of things as a wake word:
>In November 2018, Amazon sent 1700 recordings of an American couple to an unrelated European man. The incident proves that Alexa records people without their knowledge. Although the man who received the recordings reported the anomaly to Amazon, the company did not notify the victim until German magazine c’t also contacted them and published a story about the incident. The recipient of the recordings contacted the publication after weeks went by following his report with no response from Amazon (although the company did delete the recordings from its server). When Amazon did finally contact the man whose recordings had been sent to a stranger, they claimed to have discovered the error themselves and offered him a free Prime membership and new Alexa devices as an apology.
>Amazon blamed the incident on “human error” and called it an “isolated single case”. However, in May 2018 an Alexa device in Portland, Oregon, recorded a family’s conversation and sent it to one of their contacts without their knowledge. The company dismissed the incident as an “extremely rare occurrence” and claimed the device “interpreted background conversation” as a sequence of commands to turn on, record, send the recording, and select a specific recipient.
I first thought one of you may have a biowatch and your heart rate obviously increased during sex, and Alexa was warning. But that would be such an innocent explanation…
CIA/Mossad 1970: We have to bug this Appartement, but we’ve to wait till the guy leaves the house. It’s fucking dangerous and the agent can be killed if he get caught.
CIA/Mossad ~2015: Wait wait wait, why we don’t sell a device, secretly as bug, to people and we habe just saying this device can announce the current time and some yummy receipts?
I know a guy, he’s an asshole, but he owns a big world wide warehouse and every people buys from him.
I got a free echo with the purchase of something. Never opened it until a few weeks ago. Thought cool I won’t need to buy another BT speaker. My friend and I were discussing a problem with a software license at his work. I started getting ads for that software on all my devices. I unplugged that eavesdropping pos so fast
Alexa, or any home service like that is always on. Even your phone is.
I talk about somrthing i want to buy with a friend and bam. I get ads of the product even though i never searched for it.
It probably recognized the sounds and displayed a heart.
These devices have to be listening all the time in order to hear the wake word.
As an AI engineer, I can tell you with certainty that these devices know when you’re having sex.
I’m also certain that those companies would never do anything to let you know that they know.
Maybe you said “fuck me hard” and it heard “draw me a heart”
A lot of the comments here are about not getting an Alexa but I don’t see the answer?
Open the Alexa app.
Click on the three lines next to the “message Alexa” text bar at the bottom.
Go to “Alexa Privacy”
Select “Review voice and text history.”
This shows you everything your Alexa has picked up. There are also other functions under the privacy section, too.
I’m in this a lot because my roommate throws absurd requests to Alexa all the time.
You can also hear the recordings and delete them in this section.
Alexa records everything you say or do. The data is collected.
I do not know why people have these things in their home. You’re paying for your own surveillance.
You should google their privacy changes.
I would never let Amazon anything into my home.
As a prime member, I just want to say thank you for the show, these little perks make the fees so worth it
Oh that’s cute, you thought you had privacy from a megacorporation.
Why it’s doing this! It baffles me people having an intrusive device in their home, whose only job is to listen to everything and upload to companies which makes money on our habits and choices.
Why on Earth this is natural! You literally signed off your and your families privacy and expect them not to cross boundaries.
Why people actually trust those always listening “assistants” is beyond me. You’re just bugging yourself.
It is always listening. Period. You want privacy? Put it in thr trash can.
Why would anyone have one of these assistant programs is beyond my comprehension.
You know its listening to your every word, otherwise how would you get advertisements for things you have talked about?
You’re agreeing to be spied on. Fucking insane proposition.
>Alexa showed a heart on the screen after we had sex.
stop having sex with electronics