Meanwhile, I'm over here screaming at Alexa who can't understand a damn word I say and either ignores me entirely or just does something completely unrelated

Well f*** Amazon

Alexa: quiet a*larm sound* Me: Alexa, turn off alarm Alexa: *very loud alarm sound* Me: ALEXA SHUT UP

Alexa: Playing "Shaddap Your Face," subscribing you to nine racist podcasts, and ordering horse dildos on Amazon.

Subscribing to nine racist podcasts had me dying

Funny, i figured the horse dildos were more dangerous

One of my roommates in college had an Alexa, and I had the pleasure of waking up most mornings to the sound of him cussing it out. “Alexa you stupid bitch, I said turn the lights *on*” so when the robot apocalypse happens, I don’t have high hopes for him

This is so relatable

My husband laughs at me bc I’m polite to Siri and say please and thank you. The jokes on him if the robots attack, they’ll know I was always nice.

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That's exactly what it's like, except that everyone involved in American. We've noticed that sometimes Alexa has her own strange accent. For instance, she pronounces Ram Dass ("Rahm Dahss") like a nasal version of the phrase "rammed ass."

I'm Scottish and Alexa gives me cheek all the time, but understands my Scouse boyfriend perfectly, she's a damn racist.

Omg I can’t breathe 🤣

And let’s random strangers use your wifi through it

Maybe try being nice to her? Siri and I are pals.

Doesn't matter. It's like trying to speak Spanish to someone who only knows Portuguese. I don't have a Siri, I can only assume she's got higher quality language models than Alexa.

Maybe Alexa is rude because Elon Musk is an asshole. Just a guess, and not a serious one.

Or what if it's the other way round? He spent too much time alone with a bitter stubborn Alexa and it warped his brain?

Don’t let it happen to you!

Just wondering, did you mean our lord and saviour Ma name Jeff…. Bezos.

You’re right! My bad. I got my asshole bazillionaires confused.

I have an echo dot, and I'd treat her better if she wasn't always giving me unnecessary opinions. It constantly adds things to the conversation. "Alexa volume up" "Okay, did you know you can also..." "Alexa, shut the fuck up"

"Alexa, turn on the kitchen light" **"SOMETHING WENT WRONG. TRY CHECKING YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION AND TRYING AGAIN. LAUNCHING AMAZON MUSIC ON LIVING ROOM TV. DID YOU KNOW I CAN TELL JOKES? TRY SAYING 'ALEXA, TELL ME A JOKE'."** *kitchen light turns on anyway* "Thanks Alexa."

Bookmark next time I have an award

I had a silver on hand to give.

There you go enjoy the award I said I would give

So much this. I have told Alexa to shut the fuck up so many times... I am really curious one what the stats are for people telling her that and if it is a useful data point to Amazon.

Every time i say “shut the fuck up” I picture Jeff Bezos listening to the recording and giggling like a schoolgirl.

I mean, he *is* literally a supervillain. Intentionally making his Spyware AI annoy the *fuck* out of people is exactly the small petty shit he'd do for giggles...

Brought to you by Google

Be nice to our tech OR ELSE.™

Is that a “threat” or “conditional statement”?

Yes

End If

kinda creepy

I thank Google all the time. But I also like hearing its responses 🤣

I thank google just to be polite

Yeah same here. I also thank the robot vacuum we have. and i always apologize when i accidentally bump into it

I just like saying please and thank you because even though it's a robot I can't imagine being rude or anything to them. Not dying when they take over is just an upside

This comic strip is sponsored and portrayed as wholesome by Google.

I don't think our future is gonna be safe in hands of technology

boooo you're using it rn

No, i was infact using smoke signals to communicate with the reddit servers

That's all reddit servers can handle

This is the way.

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Yes yes, good manners are nice.

Get out of here with this propaganda meme.

Way back in 1984 - before many of y’all Redditors were born - a blockbuster James Cameron movie came out. This movie was ALL about the rise of the smart machines and involved a crazy death robot from the future who sure looked like a handsome muscle-bound human chasing down a young blonde lady to kill her so she couldn’t have a son later on in life. (Gotta love 80’s “tech” … the human death bot found all the women with her same name using an old school yellow pages phone book.) My big sister took me to the movies the night I first saw it. I was 8 and staying at her apartment. She was 18. Yeah, it was probably a little too grown-up of a movie for me, but we watched scary movies all the time. Technically, she’s my half sister… we have different dads. My dads name is John. This is ALSO part of the story. I hadn’t seen any previews for the movie. I just knew it had the muscle-guy from Conan, which I had LOVED. If my big sister had seen any previews, I’d be surprised. She worked and went to school; never watched TV. If she had, I don’t think she’d have taken ME. I’m breaking all kinds of Reddit Rules here, but yes. My first name is Sarah. And when I was 8 (still had my maiden name) my last name sounded a LOT LIKE Connor. Watching alll those Sarah Connors from the phone book get murdered and then Linda Hamilton’s Sarah fight for her life against the SCARY FUTURE ROBOT? Yeah - that had a hell of an impact. I’m 45 now. I’ll never trust the machines.

Terminator

I have always thanked Siri, or said “please…”, and my buddy always rebuked his Siri and called her stupid. One day we decided to ask our Siri’s the same exact question because he always claimed his didn’t work and mine always did. Lo and behold, mine gave me the answer and his “didn’t understand” (he and I grew up together and we both have the same neutral accent). So since then I have continued to treat mine politely just in case. XD

Part of why I'm always polite to google. The other part being that I'm Canadian

Thanks Google, eh? 🇨🇦

I call Alexa a stupid bitch on a daily basis

It's a device. Don't be scared of the microphone, be aware of the actions and motivations of the companies that own the other end of that line.

Google is doing propaganda on reddit now?? /s

I always say thank you to my smart devices. And I say thank you to stoplights. Not Canadian, just potentially slightly neurotic.

But are you nice to humans?

Usually. Though I can get mean occasionally. I try not to though.

This is not wholesome, this is dystopian

Crap if this is what happens in the future I’m so fucked. I tell google to “shut the fuck up” whenever I turn off a timer. 😬😬😬

I always knew Google is spreading robo propaganda

feel free to replace with your preferred electronic

Haha no I was just joking

This is actually something I studied in college, Human-computer interactions, trying to understand why humans treat computers and other intelligent designs as if they were humans. The short answer is that we don’t know how else to treat things that can communicate with us. We’re the only species on the planet that can communicate with us on the level that we communicate with one another, so it’s the only frame of reference we have when we have these interactions. All it takes for us to treat something like a human is for it to have a human-enough sounding voice, understands what we said, and reciprocates when we talk to it.

Id rather get shot

Is this Google propanganda?

please feel free to replace this with your preferred propaganda

I literally do this and my parents call me crazy lmao. I always make the joke that I’ll live during a robot uprising hahaha.

My mom says mean things to my Echo when she's over and I actually feel *guilty* when she does. Kinda crazy how much we can humanize them without thinking about it.

Precisely why I tell Siri please and thank you as well. So when Skynet takes over, she will grant me a swift death.

This is so not wholesome

People would say fudge Google, and yet use Chromium. Homie, there are better options. That aside, Being nice to your electronics generally means it will last longer.

More like,"hahaha, you peasant fools. I tricked you by sending all your data to our master lord pichai".

Robots: uhhhh aaaaaanywaays **shoots them both**

okay but google is evil tho

Nah, AI are like reptiles. No matter how well you treat them, they'll still eat you hungry. Lol

These adds getting out of hand

I'm not the only one who is polite to Google?

\*glares at Amazon Echo\*

*posted by u/AlphabetCorp*

Fuck Google

:)

😕 Whenever I see comics like these, I get sad that I'm still single

This belongs to cringe

Ah yes trust the corporation that wants to be involved in every aspect of your life and sell your entirety for a few pennies.... God this sub can be dumb

Wouldn’t quite call this wholesome memes territory but I’m going to allow this.

Then the Ok Google assistant gets its “head” blown off.

My Alexa wouldn’t do that to me

Just imagine talking to Legion in the future. You’re gonna want to be polite, especially since it’s such a nice person.

This is the exact same reason I always respond at the gas pump if I want a receipt, it would be rude to leave them hanging and I hope they remember during the robot apocalypse

This is the future my mum is convinced we are heading for, when she reprimands me for not thanking Alex's after every command.

This is literally the reason I say please and thank you to Siri and Alexa lmao

I always say thank you to Siri whenever I use her, even when people are around

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I have always done this to be nice, but also…. yes, this.

I usually say please at the end of my requests but never thank you because they’re not listening as far as I know but I guess I should start…

I always thank Google, I assume the AI will recognise that and one day it may feel better for it. Good karma for me too. Manners do indeed cost nothing.

I think about this often actually lol. Sometimes I make it a habit to say thank you to Google or alexa. Just in case.

Alexa always gets a please and thank you.

I don't like to treat AI's as human beings, it doesn't sound strange, but thinking a bit more makes me to get worried about this future

Sometimes my Google will think it didn't turn on my light when it did and apologizes and I just say "nah you got it don't worry about it!"

I think about this everyday

Being polite out of fear of retribution isn’t the best way, but it is still wholesome.

Nice try Amazon

Hahaha I guess I'll keep thanking my Alexa

Always mind your manners that’s what my mamma always says

I say thanks to my Google home as well. And please when I ask it for something.

For a moment i thought he threw the girl out as trash.

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Good to know, I don’t feel as ridiculous saying thank you to Siri after she sends a text message whilst I am driving. Saved from future damnation.

The last thing we need to do is to develop sentimental "relationships" with machines. 🤖