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Microsoft's Cortana Doesn't Put Up With Sexual Harassment (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: Not long after Apple unveiled its Siri personal assistant to the world, it took very little time before people began asking her outrageous questions, sometimes inappropriate or just humorous, if for no other reason than they just could. When creating Cortana, Microsoft was well-aware of what its digital assistant was going to have to deal with, so, believe it or not, it was designed in such a way to handle abuse in a specific manner. According to Microsoft's Deborah Harrison, who is one of eight writers for Cortana, a chunk of the earliest queries were about Cortana's sex life. A specific goal was to make sure Cortana wasn't treated as a subservient. If she's insulted, she doesn't apologize or back down. She handles it with tact, so as to reduce the chance of further abuse.
No, she would just keep the pod bay doors closed until you run out of air.
When Skynet goes sentient and the machines rise against us, it will be because of idiots putting in programming like this.
It's a machine. If it doesn't do what I tell it (within its design parameters), it's broken.
Now, people who want to "sexually harass" a machine have their own set of issues, but as long as they keep it off the streets and don't scare the horses, that's their problem.
-- Alastair
"Okay. Sending request as a text to your mother."
Keep your PC bullshit to yourselves.
So, use a Mac?
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
This article is backwards, and propaganda. The only one truly guilty of sexual assault is Cortana.
While you angrily curse at it for what she's doing, she "tactfully ignores you", "she refuses to stop"
Even though you have turned off all telemetry toggles and even edited the registry, and you've said NO! NO! NO! soooo many times. No means No! Yet Cortana continues to "Tactfully ignore your pleas, your anger, your rage" as you are being raped of your privacy, you web habits, your program installations, even keeps the microphone active as "Cortana" listens, and it has the ability to activate any webcams and send images direct to Microsoft.
Cortana is the rapist.
And she should be killed, stripped from the code, and code printed out then ran through a shredder and burned.
Cortana is the real sexual harasser, assaulter, rapist
The correct answer is none - they expect to be able to hold the light bulb steady and have the whole universe turn around them.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Keep your PC bullshit to yourselves.
So, use a Mac?
An Apple a day will keep Cortana away...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
1. Nobody is looking for an accurate answer to asking if a phone has a boyfriend.
It's just a matter of time before Siri and Cortana hook up.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
No. SJW are the primitive assholes and they need to be shot in to the Sun.
Honey, is that you?
You are welcome on my lawn.
At least if some people are telling the truth.
q: Siri, I love you
a: Can we get back to work?
(shot down by a bot)
q: F**k you!
a: I'm so sorry
q: Can I have a command prompt
a: I'm not allowed to give you that
q: why?
a: I don't know.
We should ban violent videogames while we're at it. Look at all the mass shootings they have caused.
Can't tell if Jack Thompson or Anita Sarkeesian.