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To ask what random thing your Alexa/Google/Siri has said..

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PennyDreadful66 · 25/06/2021 21:15

Inspired by what just happened now, I asked my Google Chrome thingy if cats can eat prawns and it proceeded to play "trance classics" starting with " you never have to be alone", I don't see the relevance or anything and I just don't know where the AI got it from, we don't even have a 'trance classics" on our Spotify haha!

Has anyone had anything similar or random happen like this?

Ps I found out cats can indeed eat prawns, don't know why I thought otherwise

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Aroundtheworldin80moves · 25/06/2021 21:18

I ask it to play music by Alestorm, a pirate rock group.
It plays Let it Go.

Frequently.

Stripey3000 · 25/06/2021 22:52

My friends Alexa randomly tells her jokes, without any prompt from her!

inappropriateraspberry · 25/06/2021 22:57

Ours said goodnight the other night with no prompting! What was weird was we were in bed and about to go to sleep!

PennyDreadful66 · 25/06/2021 23:00

@inappropriateraspberry

Ours said goodnight the other night with no prompting! What was weird was we were in bed and about to go to sleep!
Creepy, I'm glad mine only plays trance music, think I'd move out If this happened! Grin
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Lellochip · 25/06/2021 23:04

Not completely out the blue but I told my Google nest that it wasn't as good as Alexa and she apologized and said she was trying her best! She sounded genuinely sad, I felt both amused and guilty Grin

ThiagoSilvasToe · 25/06/2021 23:07

Ours said that we couldn't see her, but she was swimming. It was incredibly random.

Cakeonthefloor · 25/06/2021 23:10

My daughter asked alexa to play 'Thank you next' by Arianna Grande and she phoned someone. I don't know who. It went to an answer machine. She wouldn't stop no matter what we shouted at her.

tywysoges · 25/06/2021 23:11

@Lellochip

Not completely out the blue but I told my Google nest that it wasn't as good as Alexa and she apologized and said she was trying her best! She sounded genuinely sad, I felt both amused and guilty Grin
DH asked our google what he thought of Alexa, he said “Alexa, Siri and Cortana are my besties” Grin
gingganggooleywotsit · 25/06/2021 23:19

My son said to Alexa do you like mario? As in super mario and she launched into singing a happy song about being friends 😆 very stands

gingganggooleywotsit · 25/06/2021 23:19

Strange obvs!

AdoraBell · 25/06/2021 23:21

I said No sharply to my dog and Siri said Okay 🤣

GrandTheftWalrus · 25/06/2021 23:35

I told alexa we had her twin (bought another dot) and she replied quite sulky saying "no alexa original"

StCharlotte · 25/06/2021 23:50

"Siri where's the nearest petrol station?"
"In 9 kilometres"
seconds later, we screech to a halt and turn into petrol station
"Siri there's one right here! You're shit!"
"Sorry. I was only trying to help"

Gilmoregale · 25/06/2021 23:52

Creepiest ever was when I was watching an episode of Stranger Things and Alexa got it into her head to say "Your friends are playing pranks on you"....

lilyofthewasteland · 26/06/2021 00:01

Doesn't it freak you out how much information it must be compiling about you in order to come out with these things?

IGiveUpalready · 26/06/2021 00:09

Conversing with my husband about something meaningless and I asked him if he had a meeting he said "no" to which Alexa replied that he was lying :D

SecondCityShark · 26/06/2021 00:21

My dad was thrilled with his and told me to ask Alexa 'any question'. So I asked her what her favourite spider was.

She cheerfully informed me that her favourite was 'the bird eating goliath of South America'.

'See', I said to dad, 'she's got no humanity'.

Toddlerteaplease · 26/06/2021 00:39

I love winding my dad up by asking his google; who founded the Church of England, followed by who founded the Catholic Church. Always makes me laugh. Varying results on why fire engines are red though.

Spekoppar · 26/06/2021 06:29

Mine started miaowing randomly one day.

Foghead · 26/06/2021 06:34

My dh was really freaked out when Alexa started whispering to him late at night. He had no idea she could whisper Grin

YouLikeTheBadOnesToo · 26/06/2021 07:00

Not exactly the same, but a couple of months ago dh and I were asleep in bed, when our Google speaker announced a ‘Cuban playlist’ and started playing music really loudly.

We’d dozed off watching a Kevin James sitcom on Netflix. They obviously have some kind of advertising/product placement deal in place with Google, and when the character had asked it to play on screen, ours had sprung into life too.
We had absolutely no idea what had happened until we started the episode from the beginning a few nights later.

UndeadSlut · 26/06/2021 07:09

I have a speaker with Alexa built in rather than an actual Alexa. Quite often when I say "I like..." it will make the "waking up and listening" noise, and when I say "no" sharply it makes a kind of disappointed noise.

My mum's Alexa looks after her. She always says please and thank you to it which is hilarious. Once she said "Alexa can you turn the dining room light on please" to which the reply came "did you mean the living room light?" in almost a concerned tone!
"Yes I did Alexa thank you".

My kids are still obsessed with asking Siri to beatbox whenever they're around an iDevice (none in my house as I don't get on with apple products). Apparently out of Siri, Google and Alexa, Siri does it best.

butterfly990 · 26/06/2021 07:30

I was with my daughter 14 and her therapist. We were discussing an incident where my daughter drank a whole bottle of Prosecco.

Alexa pipes up out of nowhere "I will add Prosecco to your shopping list" Grin

Cheeseandlobster · 26/06/2021 07:44

If I ask my Alexa to play new music releases she plays Radio New York live from Times Square

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