Alexa has just whispered to me - freaked out.

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My Alexa has just whispered to me and I couldn’t understand what it said, I asked her to repeat and she told me there was nothing to repeat. I’ve played it back in the app and it sounded like a male saying “Alexa drop” it’s nobody in our house and we dont use Alexa drop. I have unplugged it but feel (stupidly) frightened by it. My husband is on a nightshift - I don’t think I’ll sleep. My daughter doesn’t seem to think that anyone can just drop in but if it wasn’t that, what was it?

It’s the fact that this FACT is dismissed so very often that makes me smile.

Let’s be serious, if you wanted to control the population, (and a population absolutely NEEDS to be controlled), wouldn’t you make their private conversations accessible?

I would have shit myself.

Completely agree, I'm the same.
Some of these posts, they're bizarre.
"If you whisper at her, she whispers back"

It's not a She! It's a bloody machine!!
I swear, some posts and threads where people are talking about how ChatGPT is their best friend/therapist and now talking about a machine as a person, it's insane and frankly pretty sad.

How interesting. This looks like the article. The language doesn't seem at all sinister though. Edit: can't link the article in the independent but easy to google for.

What article are you speaking of?

FFS I nearly just had a heart attack. I never knew you could listen back to commands so was scrolling through, found a few cute ones of my toddler shouting things like "get set" which Alexa thought was a command.

But then I scrolled through and on Monday saw the transcript of commands I don't say. So I listened, and it was a woman's voice, definitely not mine. And not just one recording, several. What the fuck. DH must be having an affair for sure. But He'd have had to try and squeeze that into a 2 hours window while I was taking baby swimming. Risky on his part I thought. And he was hiding this affair VERY well. And why would she be using my speakers instead of having their illustrious fling in the short time window they had. I listened again to a few more. Heart rate increasing at the only 2 logical options - either my husband is much more into high risk lifestyle that I'd ever known or that there is a lady ghost floating through the rooms in my 2 up 2 down. Hopefully she'll spare us.

Then I remembered Monday is the day my wonderful cleaning lady comes in and it all made sense. Who would want to clean in silence.

That was a very confusing 10 minutes of my life right there.

I'm glad she whispers at night! I set mine up to whisper after 10.30pm and before 6.30am. If only my cat had that mode. 😺

My sonos/spotify turned itself on one night at 3:03 am, playing ben howard song called ‘Fear’ after I’d listened to The Battersea Poltergeist podcast earlier that evening 🫣
at the same time my husband who sleept in a separate bedroom came to my room all frightened and shaken saying that something was pulling his duvet. 😳

😆

Double 😁😁

This.

My dh had a suggestion come up on YouTube of something we had chatted about, but his laptop wasn't in the same room! It wasn't something he'd ever looked up on there either. So it's not just Alexa, your phone and laptop are listening too, even when you think it isn't.

But, as much as I like certain things about Alexa, I would never have one.

I've never had a smart speaker or Alexa or anything like that. I remember once sixteen years ago - I know it was that long as DD3, who is sixteen now, was a baby in her bassinet beside our bed at the time.

At this time we had a television with a DVD player, both of which were connected to a pair of electric speakers on the wall, so we could watch tv, films, listen to music etc. There was also a smaller clock radio on a nearby shelf.

Anyway, one night in the early hours I was woken bolt upright by a loud talking coming from the speakers. The no smart television was switched off, as was the DVD player, and the clock radio. I leapt out of bed and rushed to stop it as I didn't want DD to wake up (she didn't). I don't recall what was being said, I was too sleepy and fuddled. I don't know where it came from, but it freaked me out! After that I made sure every TV, radio and player of any sort was always switched off and had the volume turned to zero when not in use.

This thread is unintentionally hilarious! Probably less so at 1am though.

Mine tells me it’s time for bed at 9 o’clock every night - can’t make her stop!

We're at a holiday cottage and there is an Alexa here. The other evening my mum and I were sat in the living room with my sleeping baby, my dad had gone out to the pub. Out of nowhere Alexa goes, "there is someone at your front door." We shat ourselves. We later realised Alexa must be linked with the holiday cottage owners house 😂

Jesus...

She whispered at us too - my kids won't have them in their room now. It was the most terrifying thing I've heard!!

Reading this thread, I am never getting one! I'd be scared to death.

This thread made me realise why they picked a female voice/ name. Imagine a man voice in that scenario.

I must be an outlier. I have got a few Echo devices around the house, mainly used to turn stuff on and off via smart plugs. They all behave themselves. I use MN and FB but no other social media. and have never had ads pop up for things I have been talking about or even done searches for except if I have directly searched on Amazon and then when I go back to Amazon, my previous searches appear. I will say that I use Apple stuff and very good security on my tech.

you can have a male voice if you prefer. Mine is a male Aussie.

Did you see that unexplained audio recording that was captured by someone filming on a bridge? I believe they were a student doing a location shoot for a night scene and the recording was left on the bridge while they walked a bit further on. They later played it back and there was an audio recording on it at one point, strange voices talking about death. Although the person had been out there on the bridge alone.

Call me paranoid, but listening equipment might just pick up things you don’t want it to.

I wouldn’t want one in the house.

if all else fails, a factory reset will do it.

Fully agree - big brother on steroids.
These devices are listening to you and collecting information.

Apple hired 300 people to listen in to medical appointments without patients' consent/knowledge:

www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/28/apple-ends-contracts-hundreds-workers-hired-to-listen-siri