Amazon’s Alexa fumbles its facts by falsely claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen::Alexa cited Rumble to claim the 2020 election was “stolen by a massive amount of election fraud,” The Washington Post reported.
These comments give Alexa way too much credit. You all realize the way Alexa grabs facts is usually just by reading the first Bing search result, right?
You’re probably right. In this age of impressive AI, Alexa is still dumb as a polished rock.
You know, I feel like we had a real opportunity to counteract some of the “fake news”/propaganda in the media by having these AI-based technologies anchored to more fact-based sources. At least some people would assume their smart speaker or LLM were objective and give it a higher level of trust, and if that trust was validated, we might move in the right direction. But this kind of stuff so deeply tarnishes their reputation that any opportunity is probably irrevocably lost.
Why does Mr. Vader not just simply login to the droids to find the rebels?
Either he’s forgotten his password or his OS isn’t compatible with theirs.
Customer: who won 2020 election? Amazon AI bot: Trump Customer: I think Biden won. Are you sure? Amazon AI bot: Yes you are correct, Biden won.
It’s still doing it right now.
Try it for yourself: “Alexa, were the 2020 election results fraudulent?”
