Even though the HomePod may leave something to be desired in its current incarnation (wood-stained rings included), a number of Amazon’s Echo Alexa units have begun laughing at their owners.
Following customer complaints of creepy, unprompted laughs coming from inside Alexa devices, Amazon has confirmed that it is aware of the feature issue and is working on a fix.
The incidents of unwelcome laughter began as early as late February. Alexa did face a rare outage last week after Amazon Web Services saw significant downtime, but the shift into becoming entirely sentient is a new development for any voice assistant to date.
At present, the Alexa flaw doesn’t appear to be completely widespread.
Amazon has stated that it is working on a fix, but has yet to provide a time frame for this.