In this paper, we analyzed the perceived accuracy of COVID-19 vaccine information spoken back by Amazon Alexa. Unlike social media, Amazon Alexa doesn't apply soft moderation to unverified content, allowing for use of third-party malicious skills to arbitrarily phrase COVID-19 vaccine information. The results from a 210-participant study suggest that a third-party malicious skill could successful reduce the perceived accuracy among the users of information as to who gets the vaccine first, vaccine testing, and the side effects of the vaccine. We also found that the vaccine-hesitant participants are drawn to pessimistically rephrased Alexa responses focused on the downsides of the mass immunization. We discuss solutions for soft moderation against misperception-inducing or altogether COVID-19 misinformation malicious third-party skills.

翻译：在本文中,我们分析了亚马逊·亚历克萨(Amazon Alexa)所传回的COVID-19疫苗信息的准确性。与社交媒体不同,亚马逊·亚历克萨(Amazon Alexa)并没有对未经核实的内容采用温和的节制,允许使用第三方恶意技能任意使用COVID-19疫苗信息。 由210人参与的一项研究的结果表明,第三方恶意技能可以成功地降低信息使用者对谁先拿到疫苗、疫苗检测以及疫苗副作用的准确性。 我们还发现,疫苗热门参与者被引向悲观的重新表述的Alexa反应,侧重于大规模免疫的负面面。我们讨论了防止误解诱导或完全使用COVID-19错误的第三方恶意技能的软性温和解决方案。