Amazon just unveiled a new personality type for Alexa+. The “sassy” option is reserved for adults and the company claims it will throw out censored curse words from time to time. Amazon describes this option as a combination of “unfiltered personality” and “razor-sharp wit, playful sarcasm and occasional censored profanity.”
We aren’t yet sure how the chatbot handles the censoring. Does it use a garden variety bleep or a replacement word like fudge or something? I managed to get it to say “damn” and “hell”, but couldn’t force anything more profane than that.
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