amazon reveals why alexa’s impromptu laughter is creeping everyone out

echo users have a reason to be completely creeped out this week. over the past few days, owners of the alexa-enabled devices have reported a creepy laughter which amazon quickly responded to: ‘we’re working on it’ before rolling out a quick fix.

the reason for this? well as noted in media reports, a spokesperson for amazon says its fix would rectify the devise mistaking common words and phrases that sound similar to asking the device to laugh. in order to do this amazon says it will disable the phrase, ‘alexa, laugh,’ and changing the command to ‘alexa, can you laugh?‘  the company says the latter phrase is ‘less likely to have false positives.‘ 

and just to make sure no one else will be scared when the sound of robotic laughter unexpectedly fills users homes, amazon is also changing the digital assistants response to the question. instead of just laughing alexa will now repare its audience explaining, ‘sure, I can laugh‘. here below from some users who captured the freaky vocals.

@amazonecho alone in the dark kitchen, with no trigger, a sudden creepy laugh emerges and freaks out owners #justwrong. Replay: pic.twitter.com/vR684u8mbN

— anne (@anniebonannieTN) February 21, 2018

My #Alexa just laughed out of the blue while I was in the middle of a conversation. So creepy ! Here’s what she played pic.twitter.com/5dGLkwZsgV

— Tal Goldfus (@talgoldfus) February 23, 2018

all images courtesy of amazon