apparently Amazon's Alexa is producing random laughing sounds. Seattle Times. Should we suspect bad software, or the Russians? Or both?

Apart from Amazon laughing all the way to the bank that is!

In order to pay for something you have to now run the gauntlet of various adverts for Prime, and in the process I declined one product. Then yesterday I knew something was wrong, and I just had to ring them up, sure enough I had a free membership and would have had the money taken from my card. I now have a free membership that will lapse in a month.

Do we believe them?

Don't they think people get irritated & not buy through them as often? Where's the off switch?