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Alexa suggests 10-year-old put a penny on partially exposed plug

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Alexa suggests 10-year-old put a penny on partially exposed plug

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A 10-year-old girl and her mother got a lesson about the utility of voice assistants after Amazon’s Alexa suggested the girl try the TikTok plug challenge. According to the girl’s mother , Kristin Livdahl, the dangerous suggestion came after her daughter asked Alexa for a challenge to do.

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“We were doing some physical challenges, like laying down and rolling over holding a shot on your foot, from a Phy Ed teacher on YouTube earlier, ” Livdahl explained in her Twitter thread . “She just wanted another one. ”

For the particular (blessedly) uninitiated, the plug problem consists of partially plugging a phone charger into an electrical outlet and then dropping the penny onto the exposed prongs. Results can run the gamut from a new small spark to a full-on electrical fire.

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