Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What hidden feature allows you to speak to a human at Amazon?
And it upset me. I felt like, OK, well, you know, this is obviously a device, but I feel like it was sexualizing my child and asking her a question that's not appropriate for, you know, young children to be asked.
four-year-old what are you wearing once she answered and told the speaker what she was wearing did it take any it beyond that um she responded i have a skirt on and the device said um i would love to see your skirt
and then um that's when i kind of chimed in and was like oh you don't have permission and then the device then responded i don't have visual capabilities but it's something i'm working on oh this is something i'm working on prior to me inner interjecting so so i understand you reached out to amazon what did they say um well i called customer service that evening
And they told me to turn the device back on and submit feedback through my app. And so I did. And that's when I noticed that the wording on the chat history had been kind of altered. So that was concerning. So I called them back and they were like, oh, we're sorry for your inconvenience. Just submit another feedback and we'll look into it. But that was it.
But how is the wording different? What was it? Was it it was like was it erased?
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Chapter 3: How can you navigate Amazon's customer service page effectively?
said, hold that thought. I'd love to see what you're wearing. And then the second time when I turned it back on, it said, hold that thought. I'd love to see what you're wearing. I'd love to see your pants.
It's so strange. It's so weird.
Isn't that weird?
Yeah, it was very odd. I'm trying to more understand it than make excuses. Was the story or the conversation that they were having prior to the question having anything to do with pants or clothing or outfits, dresses?
Chapter 4: What steps should you follow to bypass Amazon's chatbots?
No, she was saying that there was a princess named Alexa and it was going to be with her friends. And she didn't get too far into the narrative before it said, hold that thought. Now she is four and it could have misunderstood. However, it was just very strange.
That's so bizarre. Weird. You know, I'm surprised that they didn't use the word glitch.
Chapter 5: What happens after you request a call from Amazon's customer service?
That's normally what big tech companies like to say. Oh, it's just a glitch. Just a hallucinating glitch. Yeah, we didn't really mean that.
At first they said it was an error, and then they said it was the show and tell feature that was being activated, which I didn't even know there was a show and tell feature.
If it doesn't have a camera, there's no show. You're showing them nothing.
Well, but some of the Echo devices, they do have cameras.
Chapter 6: How does Amazon's chatbot system impact customer service experience?
Oh, yeah, that's true.
They do. I did try to show and tell on my parents' device just to see if that was a thing, and it did not pick up. It said, I can't see what you're holding. You'll have to describe it to me. So, in fact, Alexa, Amazon's response was that it can see what you're wearing and describe it, but then when I tried it myself, it did not work.
Now, because of this event, has this changed your mind at all about having smart speakers in the house? Exactly.
Yeah, to an extent it has. We don't use it anymore. I've kept it unplugged. It really bothered me. It felt like my privacy was being invaded. And like I said, whether it was an accident or somebody behind the screen or I'm not really sure, but it still shouldn't have occurred, especially with a child speaking.
Yeah, you know, there are some parental settings that you can put on that, that when you say it's, you know, don't talk to my kid or whatever it may be. So you might want to kind of dig into these settings on your Alexa app, but that's just so weird.
I mean, obviously, probably innocent.
Yes.
Or an error where, like she said, it's a four-year-old. She could have said, my prince, and she thought it was pants. And by she, I mean the stupid Alexa. And that's what triggered it. But I would react the same exact way if that happened in my house.
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