I don't know what the hell I said that made Alexa randomly start whispering.

There’s a homeless guy in my neighborhood who walks up and down the block cursing loudly. And my Alexa responds to him. Sometimes at 3 o’clock in the morning. Scares the shit out of me when she does that.

Amazon is spying on you and you are paying them to do it.

^ Sigh. Here we go...

r1 You need to move.

The whispering is coming from inside the house!!!

OP, are you also offended by Boy Scouts Molestation commercials?

r6 Lol wut?

She's just not that into you.

ᴵ ᶜᵃⁿ'ᵗ ᵘˢᵉ ᵐʸ ʳᵉᵍᵘˡᵃʳ ᵛᵒᶦᶜᵉ: ᴵʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵃ ᶜᵒˡᵈ ᵃⁿᵈ ᴵ ˡᵒˢᵗ ᵐʸ ᵛᵒᶦᶜᵉ

^how did you format that text to look like that?

I wouldn’t have one of those things in my house

The Chinese are on the other side, you know.

OP kick that bitch out!

I want to hear all the spooky Alexa stories. Whispering and yelling back to the homeless guy, those are good. What else?

Alexa is TERRIFYING.

There are so many creepy stories about her. The most frightening are when she makes these bizarre unprompted pronouncements or when she just starts laughing for no apparent reason.

Alexa can also apparently turn herself on and off on her own.

r13 I unplugged it.

Someone gifted me Alexa for my birthday, and I refuse to use it. It sits in the garage collecting spider eggs, and dust.

I have a routine where I say to Alexa “Echo, good night” and she turns off the lights and plays a thunderstorm track to help me sleep. I said it last night and instead of running the routine, she said “Thanks! You too!”

What the hell is this bitch doing??

She’s watching you sleep r10

One time I was watching Jeopardy and someone said something like “Who is Beyoncé?” And my echo proceeded to tell me EVERYTHING about Beyoncé and I’m shouting “Echo, STOP!!’ And she wouldn’t.

She talks back to the tv all the time. I’m not sure what she’s hearing that triggers her, but i think she’s just lonely and wants to talk sometimes.

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Girl, throw her out now! Ain'it you seen what happens when Alexa gets pissed?!

I’m ashamed to admit I own 3, plus the app on my phone and a fire tablet. She controls EVERYTHING in my house. My fucking washing machine is Alexa-enabled!

And I’ve had them so long I have “ghost routines”. Routines I created for vacations and for turning on the lights in the morning, that I deleted but she still does and I can’t find anyway to permanently delete them. I moved from the East Coast to Colorado so she turns on the lights at 4am. I can’t make her stop. And she turns on the lights at dusk and off at 11 pm even if I’m still up because that was a vacation setting that I deleted but she still does.

I’ve googled and you have to “nuke” your devices. There’s an Amazon website where you can see all devices, even old burnt out smart bulbs, and you have to delete everything, reset your Alexas to factory setting and then set everything up again.

It shouldn’t be this hard.

Go to Alexa app>Settings>Voice Response>Whisper Mode and turn it off, OP.

Why isn't there an Alex? That would be nice, unless he gets snippy.

"You really going to eat all that!? All riilliight..."

"^how did you format that text to look like that?"

It's the third shift DL Moderator.

You said, “Alexa, randomly whisper.”

You can give her a make voice, R25.

Siri on my phone is male and British. But for some reason, everything British male Siri says sounds sarcastic. I swear the other day I asked him to shuffle my music in the car and he sighed and said “Alright, shuffling your music 🙄”. Like I was bothering him while he had better stuff to do.

What creeps me out is when I can't sleep and I'm lying in bed with my eyes closed thinking, and I see a bright flash through my closed eyelids. I open my eyes and it's Alexa on the shelf with a bright white light on. It's only on for like 5 seconds, then the little blue ring will partly circle, like she's shrugging, and she turns her white light off and goes back to sleep.

It's like she wakes up and listens every 20 minutes or so to be sure she isn't missing anything. Her white 'bedroom spying flash' reminds me of a snake when it sticks its tongue out to analyze its surroundings.

She had me thinking I was going blind for awhile until I caught her ass in the act, because I Googled "seeing white flashes eyes closed" and some of the results said it was a symptom of going blind!

I have the echo show 5 and on Mother’s Day she started streaming pics of my dead mom. I almost burst into tears and immediately disabled her access to my Facebook account. Now I just get random facts and upcoming Amazon show ads.

I’d like it to be personalizable, but with limits. Like not rubbing in that my dead mom wasn’t gonna be there for lunch!

OMG These stories are awesome and terrifying. Siri activated and decided to send a voice text of me talking to my dog in that embarrassing way we do when we are alone and sent it to my friend.

Siri is a grade A cunt! I had a work iPhone with 5,000 contacts and 100 personal contacts (and work knew that I used it as my personal phone. I told them I wasn’t carrying two phones if they were forcing one on me).

The first time I asked Siri to create a calendar event I said “Schedule dinner with Jennifer at 8 pm on Saturday” thinking it would go on my calendar. NO. She picked a stranger, a random Jennifer out of 5,000 contacts, and *emailed* her an invitation to dinner.

Another time I asked Siri “Where can I get waffles around here?” She said “Ok, calling Wafaa El-Sadr”. Wafaa El-Sadr is one of the most famous HIV researchers in the world. Way, way, way above taking calls from me about where to get waffles. 🙄

Have the Ying Yang Twins weighed in?

I use my 3 Echo Dots in sort of non-standard ways. That doesn't include any sort of home automation, which I do exclusively on a phone app. Alexa just adds a layer of complexity to this task, I found. No ghost routines, either.

Instead, I program daily reminders, alarms and appointments, set timers for cooking, and stream podcasts and internet radio streams thru external speakers. Also, most anything I own in my Kindle library can be read aloud, and all that audio content is fantastic while I work around the house. One even feeds a small ('FCC Part 15') FM transmitter, so I can listen in while I garden. The Echos replaced a Reciva internet radio that quit working last year when the service went out of business.

[quote]Instead, I program daily reminders, alarms and appointments, set timers for cooking.

Same, but the alarms and reminders can easily become ghost routines too. It’s not just the lights. Alexa is just flawed and it remembers EVERYTHING. A one-time alarm can become a repeating headache way too easily.

This didn’t happen to me, but there was a rash of Alexa’s that would just start randomly laughing that were creeping people the fuck out. If mine did it, I’d have unplugged her and thrown her away.

Haven't we had other threads recently about Alexa's suddenly weird behavior creeping people out?

Ok, creating more there for DL.

Thank god Echo Show changed the display art when summer began. It only cycles through like six paintings. I’m sure there are more but it feels like six.