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Amazon is letting Alexa off the leash with a sassy adults-only mode, whereby the AI assistant willingly doles out sarcasm and mild profanity.

Alexa+ is getting customizable chat styles that change how the assistant talks to you, including a new Sassy personality with humor, sarcasm and censored profanity.

After the launch of three options last month, Brief, Chill and Sweet, Amazon has added Sassy to the list, meant only for adult users.

However, further investigation discovered this is not Amazon’s version of something like Grok’s adult AI companions. The AI ...