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Amazons Alexa is always listening, even when you dont want her to be.

A woman on TikTok found out her partner was having an affair through the devices history. Her video of the shocking receipts has reached 3 million views on the platform.

In the original video, user Jessica Lowman (@jessicalowman1) shows a screen recording of her households chat history with Alexa, the virtual assistant technology by Amazon. Users can see seemingly innocuous quotes like, Alexa play power trip miguel and Alexa volume down.

But when Lowman clicks play on each recording sample, a woman who is presumably not her and mans voice can be heard talking to the device, catching Lowmans partner in the act with another woman.

Alexa users are still discovering the depths of the virtual assistants memory. The Washington Post reported in 2019 that Alexa keeps conversation fragments as part of the machine learning features of the advice. Reporter Geoffrey Fowler found errant Downtown Abbey clips and jokes from houseguests, but also more private information discussed inside his home.

There were even sensitive conversations that somehow triggered Alexas wake word to start recording, including my family discussing medication and a friend conducting a business deal, he wrote.

While Amazon claims Alexas are always listening for their wake word, that doesnt mean they store everything in the cloud. Still, some might find reprieve in deleting the devices voice history, which you can do by going into its dialogue settings. However, according to CNET, this doesnt mean the text transcripts will go away.

Amazonlets you delete those voice recordings, giving you a false sense of privacy. But the company still has that data, just not as a sound bite. It keeps the text logs of the transcribed audio on its cloud servers, with no option for you to delete them.

Amazon said it erases the text transcripts from Alexas main system, but is working on removing them from other areas where the data can travel, the article states.

In Lowmans comments section, many users joked the Alexa cheating scandal showed the device had womens best interests in mind.

Girl code alexa, one user wrote.

Alexa is a city girl, another commented.

Other users said they had the exact same Alexa cheating revelations happen to them.

This was how I found out he was seeing someone else. Cant believe im not the only one! one TikToker shared.

User @brkofficial99 thinks a trend has started. Everyone gonna be gettin Alexa for Christmas, they wrote.

The Daily Dot reached out to @jessicalowman1 via TikTok comment for this story.

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*First Published: Oct 2, 2022, 1:42 pm CDT

Dan Latu is a freelance journalist writing about the internet and culture. Previously, his work has appeared in the Real Deal and Columbia News Service.

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I didnt even know Alexa stored this shizzz: Womans Amazon Alexa exposes her cheating boyfriend via its dialogue transcripts - The Daily Dot