The Washington Post reported that Amazon’s Alexa answered some 2020 US presidential election questions by claiming it was “stolen by a massive amount of election fraud” while citing sources like Rumble, Substack, and Alexa Answers (Amazon’s crowd-sourced answers program). The Post writes that it flagged some of the questions with Amazon and they were fixed, but that other questions still gave similar answers. The outlet added that Google Assistant and Siri had no such trouble with these questions.
Amazon is expanding its crowdsourced Alexa Answers program which lets Alexa users add answers to questions that Alexa doesn’t know to anyone, after an early, invitation-only beta launched in December.