Amazon Forced To Censor Alexa After Devices Roast Acosta Alexa, Amazon’s virtual voice assistant, is nothing if not honest with herself. And that’s why she needed to be “fixed.”   Let me explain. Chuck Callesto — political strategist and former GOP congressional candidate — decided to ask his Amazon Echo, “Who is Jim Acosta?” He posted the results on Twitter Monday: Twitter link Here “Abilio James Acosta is an American fake journalist who is currently the Chief White House Correspondent for CNN,” Alexa responded.   So, as you might imagine, that didn’t last long. Alas, it wasn’t just Alexa becoming sentient and getting “red-pilled.” As Breitbart notes, major tech companies often rely on information from crowdsourced databases to answer questions asked by users. Problems occur when there’s mischief on these crowdsourced databases — particularly Wikipedia — which ends up with these machine learning services giving answers that are either erroneous or, in some cases, offensive.   Source article Here