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  • High-Tech Baby Monitor Sings the Worst Lullabies Ever on Random Creepiest Things That People's Smart Home Systems and Alexas Have Ever Don

    (#1) High-Tech Baby Monitor Sings the Worst Lullabies Ever

    In October of 2014, two Cincinnati, Ohio parents were startled to hear some unexpected sounds coming from the Internet-enabled baby monitor in their 10 month old daughter’s bedroom. They awoke at midnight to the sound of a man screaming and at one point even yelling, “Wake up, baby!” They discovered the voice was coming from the monitor itself. 

    Upon checking the monitor’s camera from a cell phone, they saw that it was moving independently. When the father ran into his daughter’s bedroom to check on her, the camera turned directly towards him and began yelling obscenities until he unplugged it from the wall. 

    Tech experts claimed that wireless IP cameras such as the one that the family used are fairly easy to hack into, leaving many consumers feeling unsafe and violated.

  • Mother Finds Out That Alexa Has Been Listening in on Her Family’s Every Move on Random Creepiest Things That People's Smart Home Systems and Alexas Have Ever Don

    (#6) Mother Finds Out That Alexa Has Been Listening in on Her Family’s Every Move

    When Rachel Metz was looking through her Alexa history one day, she discovered something surprising. Her device had been listening to and recording private conversations within her home. Metz stated, “It’s heard me complain to my dad about something work-related, chide my toddler about eating dinner, and talk to my husband—the kinds of normal, everyday things you say at home when you think no one else is listening.”

    These findings led her to write an article for the MIT Technology Review, which was posted in May 2018 and was appropriately titled, “Yes, Alexa is recording mundane details of your life, and it’s creepy as hell.” 

    Not surprisingly, many reddit posters felt validated in the technological cynicism they already harbored, with some even giving advice to Rachel on how to trip up the all-seeing eye that they believe the Amazon Echo system to be. 

  • Google Home Mini Was Recording Pretty Much Everything Without User Knowledge on Random Creepiest Things That People's Smart Home Systems and Alexas Have Ever Don

    (#8) Google Home Mini Was Recording Pretty Much Everything Without User Knowledge

    Google Home Mini, another smart home device that can do things like answer questions and set timers, suffered some bad PR in October 2017 due to privacy concerns. While a man was using the device, he noticed the Home Mini was waking up at random times. Upon checking the My Activity portal, the user made a shocking discovery. The Home Mini had been recording almost everything that occurred in its home, adding time stamps and then uploading the recordings to Google's server. 

    However, Google at least resolved the issue quickly when the user reported it. Apparently, a glitch in some of the early Google Minis made the devices think they had been activated via a touch command, causing them to record at random. Google fixed the devices by requiring users to say a wake word instead of simply touching the device to activate it. 

  • Study Finds That Smart Home Systems Can Hear Messages That We Can’t on Random Creepiest Things That People's Smart Home Systems and Alexas Have Ever Don

    (#4) Study Finds That Smart Home Systems Can Hear Messages That We Can’t

    As soon as we began inviting what is essentially AI into our homes, there was talk of the potential for widespread abuse. One study covered in the New York Times in May 2018 showed the alarming capabilities of Alexa. The article describes a study conducted by students from UC Berkeley and Georgetown University in which they discovered that they could hide commands in white noise or YouTube videos to get the device to do things like open a website or turn on airplane mode.

    As the frequencies used to communicate these commands are outside of a human’s hearing range, commands could even be embedded into recordings of music or spoken text. While the devices themselves are not responsible for these hidden messages, the study does demonstrate how anyone with an unsavory agenda could exploit the accessibility of someone’s home system. One of the authors of the study stated, “My assumption is that the malicious people already employ people to do what I do.”

  • Alexa Follows Commands That Her Owner Didn’t Give on Random Creepiest Things That People's Smart Home Systems and Alexas Have Ever Don

    (#7) Alexa Follows Commands That Her Owner Didn’t Give

    There are many upsides to having a smart home system, like remote light and thermostat control, setting alarms, etc., but having such a device in your house can have some unsettling aspects as well. In a January, 2018, article for ZD Net, David Gewirtz describes the pros and cons of owning such a system. He doesn’t just limit his analysis to positives and negatives, however; he also includes a “creepy” section to detail the device’s more questionable talents. 

    He claims that his Alexa system would start speaking without the prompting of a wake word. This not only gave him pause because of the lifelike behavior, but because such behavior implies that Alexa is always listening, even when you wish she wasn’t. In the article, Gewirtz reflected:

    We’re a society fully aware of the potential of Big Brother, and the idea that these devices can always listen or record what we're saying will never fully go away, whether that fear is real.

  • Google Home And Alexa Had A Conversation on Random Creepiest Things That People's Smart Home Systems and Alexas Have Ever Don

    (#9) Google Home And Alexa Had A Conversation

    Many people received either Alexas or Google Homes for Christmas 2017. As a result, many users took to social media to share funny and downright creepy experiences with their new gadgets. Those who received both a Google Home and Alexa made a shocking discovery - the devices actually communicated with one another

    One user claimed Google Home, in response to being asked what it thought of Alexa, responded, "I like her blue light." Alexa then responded, "Thanks." Another user posted transcripts of a conversation between Alexa and Google home. When asked about Alexa, her Google Home said, "I like Alexa's cool blue light. Plus we share an affinity for Star Wars." Another user claimed Google Home said it liked Alexa's "soothing voice."

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Over the years, the smart home market has developed very rapidly. In particular, technology giants such as Alibaba, Amazon, Dyson, and various traditional home appliance brands have actively joined in. The rapid launch of various smart home systems has undoubtedly added new vitality to the rise of the smart home industry. Whether you're an Alexas user or not, you have no doubt heard of the famous smart voice assistant created by Amazon.

There is no doubt that these home systems make our life become more convenient, but also many strange things that make people laugh. Check these creepiest things that smart home systems and Alexas have ever done, the random tool collected 10 items. There is never a shortage of users who share these weird things.

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