Amazon has responded to the controversy after its virtual assistant, Alexa, was accused of political bias for providing reasons to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris while refusing to offer similar responses for former President Trump.
According to a report in a Fox Business article, Amazon representatives made it clear to House Judiciary Committee staffers that Alexa had sparked the pro-Harris answer prior to the start of the override.
According to the report, Alexa responds to specific users prompts with pre-programmed guide overrides created by Amazon’s info team. For instance, when asked for reasons to vote for Trump or President Biden, Alexa had listen,” I cannot offer content that supports this particular political party or candidate”.
Due to the low number of people asking Alexa about reasons to voting for her, Amazon had already programmed regular overrides just for Biden and Trump. From July 21, when Harris entered the presidential race, to September 2, the day before Alexa’s pro-Harris messages went viral, people had prompted Alexa for reasons to vote for Trump 14, 000 days, compared to just 225 days for Harris.
Within an hour of the film being posted on X and going viral, Amazon resolved the issue by implementing a regular override for inquiries about Harris in less than two hours. Alexa responded to the response, highlighting Harris’s law-and-order credentials as a former attorney and attorney general, as well as her detailed plan to address racial injustice and injustice, and prior to the repair.
Amazon expressed regret for Alexa’s show of political bias during the lecture, and it admitted that it had violated its own requirements to stop Alexa from expressing its political bias. Since then, the business has audited its system to make sure Alexa can respond to all election-related queries and has implemented human overrides for all candidates and prompts, not just for presidential candidates.
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