# I asked Alexa a question, and she cited Straightdope.com! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [August 24, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-asked-alexa-a-question-and-she-cited-straightdope-com/1022428 "2025-08-24T03:03:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-asked-alexa-a-question-and-she-cited-straightdope-com/1022428/1 "2025-08-24T03:03:18Z")
For those who love to prove that we are still relevant in the modern age, I’m including a recent question I asked Alexa as I was cooking dinner, after driving home from the movies in the rain: > “alexa are compact sedans with no rear windshield wiper common” > > “From [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com): A lot of sedans don’t come with rear wipers but that doesn’t mean all.” Which, if I plug into Discourse comes back with: > [@Sedans don't have rear window wipers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sedans-dont-have-rear-window-wipers/731515/2): > > A lot of sedans don’t come with rear wipers but that doesn’t mean all. [Here](http://l.yimg.com/dv/i/ci/710/mazda-2008-05-15/08_m6_ext02.jpg) is a Mazda 6 with one. Best advice is not to listen to people who work at auto dealerships, especially when they try to make you seem ignorant. So credit to @pkbites - Alexa is quoting you it seems. So our tilting at the windmills of ignorance may seem endless, but the infinite hunger of AI chatbots for internet scraping have gathered our wise scraps of knowledge and will dispense them from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-asked-alexa-a-question-and-she-cited-straightdope-com/1022428/2 "2025-08-24T03:26:06Z")
Alexa, I see that my local Zany Brainy store has a toy blimp for sale. It’s huge and spooky, but I should buy it, right? Alexa, my neighbor just said he burning my dog. Should I move? ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-asked-alexa-a-question-and-she-cited-straightdope-com/1022428/3 "2025-08-24T13:34:44Z")
Creepy. Only a matter of time until Skynet nukes us. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-asked-alexa-a-question-and-she-cited-straightdope-com/1022428/4 "2025-08-24T13:36:52Z")
Alexa gave you a ten year old answer? ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-asked-alexa-a-question-and-she-cited-straightdope-com/1022428/5 "2025-08-24T13:39:38Z")
So we have at least 10 years before AI wipes us out. Cool ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-asked-alexa-a-question-and-she-cited-straightdope-com/1022428/6 "2025-08-24T13:54:18Z")
It does not need to be an answer to an old thread, Google Gemini pointed at the thread I made of: > [@Can one pick a food order after the driver crashed, and what was that old movie where that took place?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-one-pick-a-food-order-after-the-driver-crashed-and-what-was-that-old-movie-where-that-took-place/1021755/1): > > On Reddit I did see this joke (not a real incident) about a bad Doordash delivery: Funny thread, but this reminded me of a movie I did see on TV when I was a kid around the 70s (it could had been a movie from the 60s or 50s). And it is driving me crazy as I can not figure out what movie it was. Close to the end of the comedy, the protagonists who were a young butler and a young maid (Cook?), decide to enjoy a few days off and play with the mansion’s amenities, as the owners wer… Just a few days after I decided to search in Google, to check if it had been actually a TV show, only to get the AI to point to my thread, as if saying: “Here is the best I can do, look for the answer there.” 🤦‍♂️ It is a bit relevant alright, but there was no answer found in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-asked-alexa-a-question-and-she-cited-straightdope-com/1022428/7 "2025-08-24T13:55:56Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > So we have at least 10 years before AI wipes us out. Cool Actually, days… Not cool when there is no answer. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-asked-alexa-a-question-and-she-cited-straightdope-com/1022428/8 "2025-08-24T13:59:59Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Creepy. Only a matter of time until Skynet nukes us. You’re on a list, now.