Microsoft's Cortana Doesn't Put Up With Sexual Harassment (hothardware.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday February 7, 2016 @08:36AM from the not-taking-this-lying-down dept.

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.

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Not Harassment by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-07 08:46 · Score: -1, Redundant

Do liberals enjoy changing the definitions of words for the sake of causing strife? This is neither harassment nor abuse. Cortana is neither a person nor an intelligent "AI" You cannot abuse or harass it. It's a program on your machine and you can use it however you please. Keep your PC bullshit to yourselves.