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47of74

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Sat Jan 7, 2017, 09:22 PM Jan 2017

Alexa gone wild

Alexa misunderstood a toddler's request

Amazon’s Echo Dot is the latest craze. But, Alexa just may be inappropriate for this toddler’s ears.

When this little one asked Alexa to play one of his fave tunes, the bot threw back some NSFW titles to choose from. Frantic screams from his mother, followed by other surrounding family members, tried to stop Alexa in the midst of her listing. Their attempts to do so may have come a bit too late, however, because we definitely heard her list some that made us blush.

It was certainly embarrassing to watch, to say the least. We can only imagine how the parent’s felt!


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Alexa gone wild (Original Post) 47of74 Jan 2017 OP
"Happy Scrappy hero pup" Warren DeMontague Jan 2017 #1

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