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Alexa Plays Pornography Instead of Kids Song

Occurred
Dec 30, 2016
Published
Jan 3, 2017
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

An Amazon Echo Dot using the Amazon Alex software started to play pornographic results when a child asked it to play a song.

Developers

  • Amazon

Deployers

  • Amazon

Harmed parties

  • Minors

Classification

Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Voice assistant generated inappropriate content for a child query, representing a content safety failure.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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