In our house, we changed the device's wake word to 'computer' as it is one of the alternatives. It's OK to demand things without saying please to a computer.
"Computer, play my music".
"Computer, play my music".
The existence of an alternative setting, and the fact that one family even used it, does not address the problem that now teenage boys probably say "Alexa suck my ..." to 12 year old girls.
What Amazon has done is created a part of everyones environment.
Many companies have done that by now. Have been ever since industrialization and mass prduction not just internet related things.
To me, that comes with some responsibility. We just have no formal system for recognizing and codifying that responsibility. Most of our capitalism rules are still based around a shop owner.
A local barber shop can name a new hair style anything they want, because even if it's somehow harmful, only a few people are ever exposed to it.
But ever since Ford and Kraft etc, private companies have created things which become part of the environment of everyone in a whole country or even the whole world.
We did codify some of that responsibility in the form of some basic safety standards and cencorship on the old pre-cable public tv and radio spectrum. Something like a name? It's hard to say how that should be handled, but I think we haven't even tried to consider it as a question yet, let alone answer it.
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