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Scott Younker

Google Home acting "pretty creepy" as users report fake identities and hallucinated chores

Google Home Speaker.

Spooky season is about to reach its apex with Halloween on Friday (Oct. 31), and Google Home may be getting in on the action. Reportedly, Google's smart home devices have started inventing fake people and events.

A couple of Reddit users claim that their devices started acting up this week. The initial post on the r/googlehome subreddit concerned the poster's Nest camera, giving an active summary that said "Michael was seen taking out trash," even though they say that no one by that name lives there.

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