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Burger King just hacked Google Home and Google just shut them down. -- (link)

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Apr 12 '17, 13:00

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http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/12/15277278/google-home-burger-king-whopper-ad-campaign (www.theverge.com)

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This happened to us accidentally not long ago. Someone on the tv called out to "Alexa" and she chimed in. They really just need... - Mel Profit Apr 12, 13:44
I find all these instances of voice technology going awry quite interesting. This never happened on Star Trek :) -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Apr 12, 13:06 8
- "It does, however, still respond with the top result from Wikipedia when someone else (i.e., a real user) other than the advertisement asks the... - Spawn Apr 12, 13:41
- its enough for me not to consider upgrading - any type of " ad" hacking is going to keep it out of my house until they get a handle on it -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 13:27 2
  - solution: only watch porn -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Apr 12, 13:27 1
    - like I don't do that now? -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 13:56
- but it did on Babylon 5 -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 12, 13:15
- "Kirk! You'll regret the day we crossed---" "Computer! Self-destruct!" -- nm - Mop Apr 12, 13:09
- that's 'cause the cameras started rolling after they got all the kinks out -- nm - decline Apr 12, 13:07 1
  - Better voice recognition technology, esp after that incident with lt broccoli -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 12, 13:18

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