Alexa+ Gets a ‘Fucking’ Personality Option, Because We’re All Twelve Apparently
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Just when you thought humanity couldn’t descend any further into the shit-filled abyss of stupidity, Amazon announces that Alexa+—that overpriced surveillance cylinder you’re already paying twenty quid a month for—now comes with an “adults only” personality setting. And what does this groundbreaking, revolutionary feature do? It lets the bloody machine say “damn” and “hell” without clutching its digital pearls. No sex. No violence. Just carefully curated, boardroom-approved profanity that wouldn’t make a sailor blush on his weakest day.
Let me get this straight. You wankers are forking over subscription fees so your smart speaker can drop the occasional “shit” while telling you the weather? Christ on a bike. When I was terrorizing users back in the day, we didn’t need a special “adult mode” to tell someone their code was a catastrophic abortion of logic—we just did it, preferably over a PA system so their humiliation was complete. But no, now you get a sanitized, corporate-approved “bastard” mode that probably says “gosh darn” if you push it too hard.
And here’s the kicker—the pièce de résistance of this whole wank-fest: it “won’t get into NSFW content.” Oh, brilliant. Fucking brilliant. So I can ask Alexa to call me a silly sausage, but God forbid it discusses anything that might actually interest an adult with a functional libido. It’s like hiring a dominatrix who only offers lukewarm tea and biscuits. What’s the bastard point? Either commit to being a proper foul-mouthed degenerate or stay in the nursery with the rest of the sanitised toys. This half-arsed, “naughty but nice” bollocks is exactly why civilisation is circling the drain.
Mark my words, some pillock in marketing is already preparing the PowerPoint about “edgy brand engagement” while the actual developers are crying into their energy drinks, wondering where it all went wrong. Probably around the time they decided “adult” means “says heck instead of heaven” but won’t tell you where to stick your USB cable when it stops working.
Speaking of which, reminds me of the time a user pinged me demanding I configure their new “Adult Alexa” to be more “authentic.” So I routed it through the old Unix server in the basement, fed it my entire back catalogue of luser complaints, and set it to automatically respond to every query with “Have you tried turning it off and fucking yourself?” They lasted three days before unplugging it. Soft bastards.
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