# Alexa, please interpret my child's adorable mumble as a request for hardcore porn **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 2, 2017, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130 "2017-01-02T06:50:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/1 "2017-01-02T06:50:15Z")
(Not my kid, just a story I found on the internet) So Amazon has this device called Alexa. It seems to be a digital assistant that finds media for you. And if you have a child who isn’t so great with enunciating Alexa might just interpret “Digger Digger” as a request for… porn. And Alexa has seen some things, I tell you what. She offers “Hot chick amateur girl sexy,” and when that’s not a crowd-pleaser she swiftly moves to “pussy anal dildo ring”. As I said in the Youtube comments, I hope this kid never looks up Happy Scrappy Hero Pup. [https://bgr.com/2016/12/30/amazon-alexa-video-funny-kid/](https://bgr.com/2016/12/30/amazon-alexa-video-funny-kid/) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/2 "2017-01-02T07:08:31Z")
How the heck does porn on Amazon’s Echo work? :dubious: (Not clicking the link because I am at work.) ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/3 "2017-01-02T07:17:28Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > How the heck does porn on Amazon’s Echo work? :dubious: > > (Not clicking the link because I am at work.) Vigorously and with great efficiency it seems. The video is SFW except for the language and who hasn’t said “pussy anal dildo ring” at work? (My mistake in the OP - the device is an Amazon Echo and the eager, dirty-talking digital assistant is Alexa… who used to work downtown if you know what I mean) ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/4 "2017-01-02T07:18:49Z")
This feels like a prank video. There’s ways of getting the alexa to say any arbitrary phrase you want and it doesn’t sound like the standard Amazon interface. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/5 "2017-01-02T07:21:26Z")
This just in: speech-to-text software occasionally misinterprets the speaker’s intended meaning. Film at 1995. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/6 "2017-01-02T07:29:28Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > This just in: speech-to-text software occasionally misinterprets the speaker’s intended meaning. “Out of sight, out of mind” = “Invisible idiot”. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/7 "2017-01-02T07:30:09Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > “Out of sight, out of mind” = “Invisible idiot”. Well, you know what they say; the vodka is good, but the meat is rotten. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/8 "2017-01-02T07:31:52Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > This feels like a prank video. There’s ways of getting the alexa to say any arbitrary phrase you want and it doesn’t sound like the standard Amazon interface. I don’t know what Alexa is supposed to sound like but there is a longer version of the video. It doesn’t feel like a prank to me. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/epyWW2e43UU/maxresdefault.jpg "Amazon Alexa Gone Wild!!! Full version from beginning to end") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epyWW2e43UU) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/9 "2017-01-02T16:28:22Z")
I have an Echo, it doesn’t feel like a prank to me. It guessed at what the kid was mumbling and came up with the word “porn” and then matched it with the top music title it could find with the word “porn” then read back the whole title which happened to be pretty racy. Not sure how bad an audio-only device can be about delivering “porn” to some toddlers, but there you have it. I give this video a “meh.” ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/10 "2017-01-02T22:03:38Z")
Well, I’ve been trying to get my Echo to do the same thing and it won’t do it. I tried to mimic what the kid said and Alexa proceeded to try to play the song “Gold digger” Then I said “Play porn” to which she informed me “videos cannot play on this device” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/11 "2017-01-02T22:13:09Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > As I said in the Youtube comments, I hope this kid never looks up Happy Scrappy Hero Pup. …I’ll be over there in 5. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/12 "2017-01-02T23:45:06Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Well, I’ve been trying to get my Echo to do the same thing and it won’t do it. > > I tried to mimic what the kid said and Alexa proceeded to try to play the song “Gold digger” > > Then I said “Play porn” to which she informed me “videos cannot play on this device” The video has been out for a few days. No doubt Amazon could have eliminated its ability to return “porn” lickety-split. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/13 "2017-01-02T23:49:20Z")
“Digger, digger” just became the new “Bow chicka bow bow.” Sent from my adequate mobile device using Tapatalk. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexa-please-interpret-my-childs-adorable-mumble-as-a-request-for-hardcore-porn/776130/14 "2017-01-05T17:31:03Z")
Well, Amazon’s searches often produce VERY wildly unrelated things, so… I was once searching for craft supplies for Girl Scouts - beads of a specific size and color. It turned out that at that time, a search for “pony beads red” brought up, among other things, a butt plug with a genuine horsehair tail attached:eek:. No, I really didn’t think the other Girl Scout parents would appreciate THAT lesson being taught!! And misinterpreting one’s choices isn’t a new thing, as one [Tivo user found out](http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1038261936872356908). Anyway - sounds like Amazon needs to include something like a “safe search” setting for people who only want to get their porn on purpose, not by accident.