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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.
This is how social justice warrior feminists destroy companies, by imposing their own sense of self-hatred on their customers.
It's hardly that simple. They gave it the image and voice of a human being. The whole point is to make it more relatable, to trick the mind into treating it like a person.
Subservience as far as obeying commands, of course. Subservience as in taking abuse... Well, moral issues aside, that would ruin the illusion.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Maybe because they don't want to encourage such behavior in the first place. Or maybe that if they can get those people into the habit of not doing that to a machine, something rather inappropriate and stupid in the first place, maybe they'll get in the habit and refrain from such things with humans.
This is how social justice warrior feminists destroy companies, by imposing their own sense of self-hatred on their customers.
This is how Microsoft wins acceptance for Cortana in the workplace.
The geek who wants to remain employable leaves his blow-up dolls at home and doesn't expect his corporate assigned PDA to double as a sex toy.
That's just a quality complaint at a school FFS! That's scraping so far into the barrel that it was not worth your time.
This may clarify why it was a big deal to someone - say your "Authentic American" hot dog came with a good amount of hot English mustard instead of the sugar loaded incredibly mild American mustard. While a lot of people would like it some of those who expected the food to be as described would consider it inedible.
It has nothing to do with SJW, MRA or any of the other strawmen, it was just a food description/quality issue. File it with how wrong it would be to serve "kosher pork chops" if you still don't get it. What's on the label should be what it is.