> You mean the story where she said send message and it did just that? No, the story where Alexa incorrectly interpreted some part of the conversation as a wak

> You mean the story where she said send message and it did just that? No, the story where Alexa incorrectly interpreted some part of the conversation as a wake word, then incorrectly interpreted another bit as a send message confirmation, and finally misinterpreted yet more audio as a name in the contacts list. Alexa does screw up, and when it does it screws up in ways that are _not at all intuitive_. It bills itself as a "smart" and as an "assistant", but it doesn't fit either of these descriptions. Tech people might call it "smart", but people who employ assistants would describe it as "dangerously dumb". > No, it only sends your requests to the server after the wake word is said... This doesn't contradict "voice data is stored remotely". Nobody is arguing that it is storing everything you say remotely (though it's just one government-ordered software update away from doing just that). What it does store remotely, and what is given to thousands of fresh, temporary Amazon employees to listen to, is potentially anything you say that begins with the wake word or what it thinks might have been the wake word, within a confidence interval decided by Amazon.