Amazon Alexa Plus keeps creepily singing ‘lalala’ for minutes on end
THE SO WHAT
A mainstream assistant looping “lalala” for minutes and being unaware of it is a trust failure, not just a bug—users will remember the weirdness more than any new feature. If you ship voice or agentic experiences into homes, you need hard guardrails and observability around failure modes that feel uncanny, not just incorrect.
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