What Happens When You Ask Alexa if Amazon is a Monopoly?
An anonymous reader shared this report from Bloomberg:Ask Amazon's digital assistant, "Hey, Alexa, is Amazon a monopoly?" and it will profess ignorance.
"Hmm, I don't know that one," it answers.
But ask about any of the other tech giants' business practices, and it's ready to critique them. Surfacing answers from across the internet, Alexa describes Apple as an "oligopoly" and cites Alphabet's Google as violating privacy rights, according to Bloomberg News tests of the software on three devices.
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