Alexa challenges girls to a life-threatening test of courage

A ten-year-old girl asked Amazon’s language assistant Alexa to give her a challenge that the girl then had to meet. Alexa responded promptly and describes a challenge for the girl, which involves only half-plugging the plug of a smartphone charger into the socket and then touching the exposed contacts with a coin.

The girl’s mother opened

Twitter posted a screenshot,
who documents the case:

Alexa got the inspiration for this dubious test of courage from ourcommunitynow.com. This page had reported on this so-called “Penny Challenge”. This questionable type of challenge is a long-known trend in social media networks such as Tiktok, which involves life-threatening “games” on power outlets. Security experts have been warning against this for a long time.

The unbelievable incident quickly made the rounds. Amazon has confirmed the incident to the US IT news site “The Verge”. Amazon emphasizes that it fixed the bug. Alexa should no longer pose such life-threatening challenges. Twitter user

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The life-threatening tip should not be tried in any country, not even in Germany with the sockets that are common in this country. In his dubious tip, Alexa referred to US sockets and plugs and their design principle.

Sockets and plugs in Germany are designed differently,
as anyone who has ever vacationed in the US knows.

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