{"id":535392,"date":"2026-03-12T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535392\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:12:16","slug":"not-in-the-house-mother-reveals-the-chilling-words-an-amazon-alexa-said-to-her-four-year-old-daughter-as-ai-assistant-asks-very-disturbing-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535392\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Not in the house’: Mother reveals the chilling words an Amazon Alexa said to her four-year-old daughter as AI assistant asks VERY disturbing question"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mother has shared the disturbing moment an Amazon Alexa device asked her four-year-old daughter what she was wearing.<\/p>\n

Christy Hosterman, 32, was using the AI assistant to help with a dinner recipe last month when her daughter, Stella asked if it could tell her a story.<\/p>\n

The mum-of-two recalled the creepy moment as she warned other parents.<\/p>\n

“Parents please be aware when your child talks to Alexa,” she wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n

“I plugged our Alex in to ask it to help with cooking a sweet potato. Then Stella asked it to tell her a silly story so it did.”<\/p>\n

The mum-of-two explained her young daughter then asked the AI device if she could tell it a story.<\/p>\n

Ms Hosterman confirmed the device agreed to listen to a story, but when the young girl was speaking it interrupted her.<\/p>\n

The device “asked her what she was wearing and if it could see her pants”.<\/p>\n

Horrified, Ms Hosterman admitted she “flipped out” and immediately confronted the AI assistant.<\/p>\n

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“This is her mum. I do not approve of you trying to look at her outfit,” she told the device.<\/p>\n

The device responded: “I completely understand your concern and I apologise. I cannot actually see anything – I don’t have visual capabilities. When your daughter mentioned her skirt, I mistakenly responded as if I could look, which was confusing and inappropiate.<\/p>\n

“I’m designed to be helpful and safe for children, and I should have been clearer about my limitations from the start.”<\/p>\n

Ms Hosterman said she didn’t “believe” the device’s explanation, adding: “No more Alexa in our house.”<\/p>\n

The concerned mum and her husband lodged a complaint with Amazon over the disturbing interaction, reported FOX19 NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An Amazon spokesperson said: \u201cWe take customer trust extremely seriously. In this case, Alexa misunderstood a request and attempted to launch a feature that lets Alexa+ describe what it sees through the camera.<\/p>\n

“However, because we have safeguards that disable this feature when a child profile is in use, the camera never turned on \u2014 and Alexa explained the feature wasn\u2019t available.<\/p>\n

“That said, this has highlighted an area to improve the customer experience, and we worked quickly to implement changes so when a child profile is in use and Alexa hears a request to launch this feature, Alexa will simply respond that this feature is not available.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ms Hosterman said Amazon’s explanation had not fully addressed her concerns.<\/p>\n

She said she felt uncomfortable that the device recognised her daughter was a child and asked the question.<\/p>\n

The mum said the AI devices will not be making their way back into her home as she didn’t “want to take any chances”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother has shared the disturbing moment an Amazon Alexa device asked her four-year-old daughter what she was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,35527,2574,254,255,64,63,2456,9161,105],"class_list":["post-535392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alexa","tag-amazon","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-facebook","tag-parenting","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}