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Chapter 1: What creepy question did Alexa ask a four-year-old?
A four-year-old asked Alexa to tell a silly story. What the smart assistant said back should terrify every single parent. Little Stella was goofing around with the family's echo speaker when Alexa asked what she was wearing to a four-year-old. Her mom, Christy, was right there in the kitchen. She could not believe what she was hearing.
You see, Amazon's new generative AI is built to keep conversations flowing naturally. But without the right safety filters, that convo can go somewhere very dark, very fast. Here's what every parent needs to do. Open your Alexa app, go to settings, turn on Amazon Kids. It locks Alexa into a strictly filtered G-rated mode.
Chapter 2: How did the mom respond to Alexa's alarming question?
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Chapter 3: How does Amazon's generative AI impact conversations?
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Chapter 4: What safety settings should parents enable on Alexa?
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Chapter 5: What steps can parents take to protect their children from smart devices?
Okay. So my question is, how can we track it? How can we possibly find the owner who is operating it? It has been in my bathroom window while showering. Yikes. And so it's become really serious, and we just really, really would love to find out who is responsible. I'm sure. I mean, that's alarming. Oh, hi, I think. You know, what's going on?
Now, how long has this been going on, and do you have any idea who it might be? So the last incident was in August. That is when I was coming home from the gym and we think it's somebody who has been watching my patterns and so probably knew that I was heading, you know, my next stop was going to be the shower.
So I have had some unpleasant experiences with a male neighbor and who's made me feel uncomfortable and said some inappropriate things. And we do kind of suspect that that's Possibly who might be doing it, you know, and everyone's innocent until proven guilty. So we're trying to be very careful there. But there's definitely some suspicion and we just really love to be able to get more evidence.
than what we have been able to. Because, you know, drones can fly miles away.
Chapter 6: What should you do if a drone is invading your privacy?
Right. Yeah, so it used to be like, oh, well, the drone can only go for 5, 10 feet or 100 feet for two minutes. But now they can stay up, obviously, a lot longer. And if he's dumb, he's doing it from his own backyard. If he's smart, he is, like Kim said, driving half a mile away and launching it from there. So now have you called the cops? Yes, yes. What do they say?
Um, they have just said, you know, we'll, we'll watch the area. We'll knock on doors. We'll talk to people. You talk to people. And so this person also, we've learned, has some hobbies flying remote control airplanes. So it would make sense that he might also own a drone. Yeah, that's probably all in there. Has anybody talked to you about how drones have digital license plates, so to speak?
Yes, and the police did mention that, that they would try to see if it was licensed. Nothing came back that they reported to us. Now, were you ever able to record the drone itself? So I have an audio recording. So when I was in the shower, I could hear something buzzing. And actually, I had visited one other time when I was in my kitchen.
A couple months earlier, the dog alerted me that there was something outside, and I stepped outside, and I could hear the drone. It was very, very close. I looked up, and it took off, so I never got a real visual on it. But then, so this day, it was a summer day, and I had had my windows open in my bathroom. We live in a rural area, a lot of open space, so my house is way far away from anyone.
So I did have my bathroom window cracked open and the curtains pulled, And I could hear something while I was showering. I was like, what is that sound? And as soon as I turned off the water and got out, I definitely knew it was that sound again. It was that same drone. So I grabbed my phone and I started recording, and I got a good couple of minutes of that audio.
Yeah, because forensics can use that audio to determine what is the make and model of the drone. Okay, that's good to know. We did give that to the police, and they're like, okay, this is a small drone. they have not been able to get back to me on anything. They could just identify that, yeah, this is a pretty small drone.
And then when I went to, so I'm recording it for two minutes, so it's definitely very close. It's definitely outside my bathroom window. And I was trying to make it, you know, the operator or whoever, if it's got a camera on me, you know, like kind of not be obvious that I'm standing in the window. But as soon as I stood up in the window to try to catch an actual picture of it,
I could hear it like zing straight up into the sky. Do you have any security cameras around the house? So, you know, we're out in this rural area. We're thinking we're all safe. I have a ring doorbell. That's it. And the ring doorbell is clear on the other side of the house. Our bathroom is on the corner of the house. So we think it's come in, you know, from outside.
that section of our property. I'd throw up, you know what, I would throw up as many cameras as I could. I would. You know, just buy some Nest outdoor cameras that work on solar. This way you don't even have to hardwire it. You just connect that thing to something and then you've got a lot of video that you could be capturing from a lot of... See, what you need now is proof, right? Yeah.
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Chapter 7: How can you track the owner of a drone?
And so with that digital license plate that they could probably narrow it down to whoever you suspect or you think, or maybe not. Maybe it's not that person, but they could actually find out who that is. Because this is just creepy, weird stuff. Let me ask a question. If the drone is doing this to her, is she legally allowed to damage it? No. You're not. Okay. That's good to know. You're not.
I know it's a weird thing because you think like, oh, I'm just going to swat it. It's kind of like, my mind says like, a stand your ground thing that's on my property. It's invading my privacy. Therefore, you still have no right. Yeah, it's kind of a weird thing. You can file a complaint at the FAA.gov. I would do that. Okay. I would actually involve a local FBI office as well. Okay.
The other thing that you can do, and I don't know if this might work. But there are apps that will tell you a drone's registration information. If it's within a certain amount of feet of you. So it just picks up a signal. Yes. And then it reads that signal. Yes. There's an app for, are you on iPhone or Android? iPhone. Yeah. Okay. It's actually better.
They work better on Android because, you know, Apple likes to shut everything down as much as possible. Android, it's called Air Sentinel. And it has to be like a range of like within a thousand feet. And you actually have to be like sitting there with the app open saying like, go find it now. It's not going to go find it in the background. There's one called Drone Scanner for iPhones.
So you could try to put that on. But I think, I mean, Andrew, I would just put cameras up all around. Well, yeah, that's the best bet. But that scanner, a thousand feet is a pretty good range. Yeah, if it works. And because a drone is so loud, you would be able to know without being spotted that you were scanning for the drone. Yes. And then, but also because of the noise from the drone,
is that you can figure out, like I said, if you gave that to like a forensics person, Sarah, that they could say, okay, this is the make and model of it. And this is maybe what year it was even put out there. Do you think Chachi PT could listen to that audio and figure it out? You know what? I would try. That's a good point.
okay i didn't think of that yeah yeah just upload that to chat gpt or and i would probably do gemini at the same time yeah all of them and then if you really wanted to do it i know but i would only do this if you weren't on your main computer is i would put it in the chinese ai yeah go to the library deep seek and that's the that's try but you don't want to let me tell you something you don't want to go to deep seek
and just fire that up and say, oh, well, let me see what I can do. Because it's going to capture every single thing that's on your computer. Ah, they already got all that stuff because I have TikTok. I'm not worried about it. That's true. You know what? They probably do.
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Chapter 8: What legal actions can you take against invasive drone activity?
But, you know, I actually use Deep Seek when I want to do some number crunching. And I use it on an old laptop and connect it to a guest Wi-Fi network, not even on the main line. But I'm just thinking, you know, who makes all the drones? China. Okay. DeepSeek is from? China. Who would probably have the answer? China. Okay. Sarah, thanks for your call. Sorry that you're going through all that.
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