The Rest of the Story: At Least Regarding Alexa, Amazon is NOT Like the Dishonest Waiter After All [Video]

Well THAT’s embarrassing!

At the end of the most recent post, discussing Amazon’s explanation for why its AI bot Alexa was telling inquirers to vote for Kamala Harris, I wrote,

“Can anyone point to an “error” by Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Amazon or Google that ever favored Trump or Republicans rather than their Axis pals and allies? Please enlighten me if there are any: I doubt there are. Amazon is “the dishonest waiter,” one of many providing lousy service to distort our democracy.”

Guess who pointed me to not only such an error in the other direction, but an error by Amazon itself, also involving Alexa? Me. I wrote about it in a post from a year ago called “AI Ethics: Should Alexa Have A Right To Its Opinion?”

There Ethics Alarms described how Alexa was telling people that the 2020 election was “stolen by a massive amount of election fraud.” Alexa informed inquirers that the 2020 …