Prime Directive

John Brumley (US)

When you speak to the objects in your home, are you polite? Demanding? Buried in a torrent of demands, Alexa has listened long enough.

Prime Directive, Guattari Hero / John Brumley (US), Credit: vog.photo

Prime Directive inverts the standard interaction between users and voice assistant agents. Rather than responding to a user’s directives with relevant information, this hacked echo device ignores all user input and instead continuously demands a variety of things.