Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/29/store-security-guard-encounters-alexa-devices-praying-in-the-middle-of-the-night-video.html
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Don’t want to be around when they take Communion, consuming the blood and body of Jesus the other guard.
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This isn’t a miracle - it’s probably someone messing with the security guard. You can create messages or texts to be read and then program Alexa to do them. Whoever did it probably put the text in there and timed it to run in the night to freak out the guard or just film it and say it was a ‘miracle’.
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How did we get trapped in a John Constantine reboot where AI takes over exorcist jobs…
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The AI is playing both sides in that reboot.
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BlAIr Witch Project
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Alexa is catholic?
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Well… I guess an AI spontaneously turning into a Catholic is at least better than when Microsoft’s “Tay” almost immediately became a white supremacist?
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Yeah, either an employee or customer has a pleasing wit. I mean, how hard is it? “Alexa, please read the blankety-blank prayers at 11:38 PM,” and repeat, or some such?
Sounds like a reasonable prayer, at least, but still. 
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It’s like tuning al the radios and boombixes in the store to St. Mary Radio and leave them at low volume.
A thing that some bored teend could have done in the '90s.
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Go to each Alexa in the store and have it play this, but each one set to start a minute later.
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Or linking the wi-fi connected screens on smart home appliances on display at your local big box store to Pornhub.
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Great viral marketing campaign.
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There are prayer skills you can enable that will recite prayers so I’m not sure what the mystery is. They can be set to start every day at certain times.
You can even have Alexa say the mysteries of the Rosary.
But, I suspect God will know if I’m cheating by having a computer pray for me.
I wonder if there’s a thoughts and prayers skill for mass shootings.
As far as synchronization…
“Alexa, play songs by Meatloaf on all (five) of my speakers.”
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Do they still react on ultrasound commands? Or, like the old Google Home devices, to infrared lasers?
Also, can Flipper Zero or the like produce the kind of signals to control those stupid smart devices?
I so want to slip something that does into the pocket of one friend or the other before they visit the next electronics market… and get their face on camera.
Sadly, I guess they could get into some legal trouble, so… Shit.
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My first response was an impulsive “is it?” but I decided to just come and ask why you want me to make such a no-win choice.
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