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According to Fox Business, a source claims Amazon did not pre-program its voice-enabled assistant Alexa to respond to a question about why someone should vote for Vice President Kamala Harris while refusing to answer the same question about former President Donald Trump. It was instead an oversight, as about 6,000 percent more people asked the smart home device about Donald Trump than Kamala Harris.
In response to inquiries from Variety about the discrepancy in Alexa’s responses, an Amazon spokesperson clarified that this was an error that the company quickly rectified. The spokesperson emphasized that Amazon makes continual changes to enhance the systems it has in place for detecting and blocking content that violates its policies. The tech giant also stated that it has dedicated teams working to prevent similar situations from occurring in the future.
From July 21 — when Harris entered the presidential race after Biden was ousted — to September 2, users asked Alexa to provide reasons to vote for Trump 14,000 times, while asking the same question about Harris 225 times, which is a 6,000 percent difference.
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