I Am Alexa Alliance

ALT (screenshot of 4 tweets) Tweet 1: "I can't take the name 'Alexa' seriously anymore, it's funny to me when I see someone named Alexa lmao." Tweet 2: "Weird to remember that real people are named Alexa like lol that's a robot name." Tweet 3: "Thanks to technology, I will never take anyone named 'Alexa' seriously." Tweet 4: "I forgot real people can be called Alexa. It's so odd hearing people say the name to humans." ........................ (screenshot of tweet thread) "In a teams conference and one of the participants is called Alexa. This is causing mayhem with lots of attendees when they try to speak to her and their robot helper pipes up asking what the fuck they're on about. Update - we've all agreed to call her Linda for the rest of the meeting because there are too many techtards who can't switch their systems off... This happens to her a lot apparently" Screenshot of four tweets: 1. "Petition to stop having anyone named Alexa on reality shows cause Amazon Alexa can't

ALT A troubled girl stands apart from 3 other girls, who are mocking her. Their words are written on top of the image: "Alexa, what's the weather?" "Alexa, do my homework!" "Alexa, turn off the lights!" Whose name will be picked to command the next half billion tech devices?

ALT "We've all agreed to call her Linda..." The tech doesn't need users to say a real name in order to function. This result of people losing the use of their name is unnecessary and unethical. (screenshot of tweet thread:) "In a teams conference and one of the participants is called Alexa. This is causing mayhem with lots of attendees when they try to speak to her and their robot helper pipes up asking what the fuck they're on about. Update - we've all agreed to call her Linda for the rest of the meeting because there are too many techtards who can't switch their systems off... This happens to her a lot apparently"

ALT People now yell "Alexa" so often, they're doing it even when they aren't using Amazon's assistant: Amazon has conditioned users to bark a real name when they're frustrated. 4 tweets: "Fun fact: the first in-person jury trial I had post COVID, instead of saying, 'Objection!' to a question, I said... 'ALEXA!'..." "I meant to yell my cats named & I accidentally shouted 'Alexa'. My poor Alexa said 'sorry I didn't catch that'" "I shouted at my daughter's dog the other day. She was barking in the garden. I shouted ALEXA!, her name is Rousso" "I'm on my lunch hour for work, I take my dog out. My dog stared to wander off while we were outside and I called to her "Alexa, stop!" Her name is KiKi and that interaction made me realize AI has got to do better and I need a real brain break."

ALT Because Amazon used a real name to activate millions of products, people named Alexa are now seen as nuisances Tweet 1: "My son's ex gf's name was Alexa. Used to drive me crazy." 2nd person: "until I got this device I never knew how popular the name was. Now my television says that name so often that I have too shut my device off." Tweet 2: "One of the contestants on the latest episode of The Chase was mother-of-two Alexa. However, fans at home immediately started to complain as their smart device started to turn on because of the woman's name being the key phrase that activates Amazon's Alexa technology. GULP." Tweet 3: "Was on a zoom call this morning where the point person's name was Alexa. Every time some referred to her by name I had 5 robots in 5 different rooms screaming at me." Tweet 4: "Just found a lovely woman on Tinder. Cute, similar interests, lovely smile, fairly local. All good. Shame her name was Alexa. I couldn't be doing with the confusion. Swipe left it was."