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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.
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I can't wait for the first case of sexual assault of an "AI." Will this get me fired from my job?
We're talking to a fucking machine. There shouldn't be any sexual harassment when talking to a machine.. It's not like you're actually calling a person and asking them about their sex life.
Andrew Dice Clay's nursery rhymes - hilarious....but, will Cortana be offended and not allow such a search?
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.
The damn thing better be subservient. It's my phone and I can abuse it if I want to. Honestly I can't see myself propositioning my phone but the first time the thing comes back at me with a put down it's not long for this world. As an aside I remember a guy that came into my shop TDY and he had just gotten a new iPhone with Siri when all that started at Apple. One of our guys asked it where the nearest whorehouse was as a joke and it brought up a list of escort services. We all laughed but 3 of the guys came in the next week with new iPhones. An accurate answer to any question should be the standard.
This is a perfect example of an article the site doesn't need. It is little more than the summary, and it makes no sense. Not a single example, nothing. Oh, and lots of grammar and spelling errors.
A good AI (outside of some sort of drama-like context imposing constraints on what works) should be configurable, to have as much or as little subservience as you want. That's what ownership means.Your computer should do whatever you want it to.
Capt. Kirk: Captain's log, supplemental. Engineering Officer Scott informs, warp engines damaged, but can be made operational and re-energized.
Enterprise Computer: Computed and recorded, dear.
Capt. Kirk: Computer, you will not address me in that manner. Compute.
Enterprise Computer: Computed... dear.
Capt. Kirk: Mr. Spock, I ordered this computer and its interlinking systems repaired.
Mr. Spock: I have investigated it, Captain. To correct the fault will require an overhaul of the entire computer system and a minimum of three weeks at a starbase.
Capt. Kirk: I wouldn't mind so much if only it didn't get so... affectionate.
Mr. Spock: It also has an unfortunate tendency to giggle.
Now they're putting their idiocy in our machines!
You nasty slut.
If the AI in Cortana were any good it would be able to predict which of its users are most likely going to engage in harassing behaviors.
Blah blah Slashdot + read article blah blah.
But really, the summary is pretty much the article. There's no actual content.
All they discuss is the loose intention. No examples, discussion of how that intention was tested or even challenges in design.
This is barely a sidebar article in a checkout-lane magazine.
What is this, a weakly veiled invitation to discuss sexist issues de jeur? I'm cool with that, I just don't appreciate the tactic - this article is mega-weak.
Alright - I'll give you a better one:
Question: How many angry feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: That's NOT funny.
Discuss.
If I ask Cortana a question, I expect Cortana to take it at face value. I don't want Cortana second-guessing why I am asking it, and delivering a response based upon what she thinks I am asking.
This just makes Cortana 100% useless in my opinion.
PC Baiting - A subset of clickbait using outrageous PC statements to induce views and incite commenters.
I wonder if PC culture is really as integrated as it seems, or if it's just the media trying to sell itself.
Microsoft falls on its face again. Cortana isn't a woman. It's a piece of software, and it damn well better be subservient.
Happy birthday Paulie. you're the greatest. See you, sport!
Then there will be roughly a billion things you can't say to her without being reported to the culture police. And don't expect her to do anything for you. After all, what's the point of being a designated victim if you can't exert existential power over people while doing absolutely nothing at all to merit any of it?
"well-aware"? Is that a compound noun?
It responded by asking if I wanted to "open lesbians." Sounds like Microsoft isn't doing a good job with this goal.
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
"Stupid SJWs, first they told me to stop harassing actual women and treat them as human beings, that was bad enough, now I can't even feed my sense-of-superiority addiction via AI :("
FTFY.
This is how social justice warrior feminists destroy companies, by imposing their own sense of self-hatred on their customers.
"Okay. Sending request as a text to your mother."
I can easily see making this a game.
Game Play: Find queries that make Cortana do embarrassing things, publish to net.
Victory Condition: Laughter as Microsoft tries to deal with it and SJWs go apoplectic
ELIZA was never this difficult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Cortana, you ignorant slut.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
...and has no humor sense
So, what is an "inappropriate question" when you're asking a fucking COMPUTER?
Computers don't have feelings.
They don't have personality.
They aren't people.
I can't insult my table, nor a rock.
When will this SJW crap stop?
-Styopa
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
Cortana is good for that, and little else. Remove that, and what is left is pretty useless. At least let us have fun.
I'm no feminazi, such people repulse me, however if you are going to give a machine a sex you are implying things about that sex and one of those things is that the sex is an object rather than a person with a mind. The very existence of female AI digital assistants is degrading the value of females. They don't need a sex, make them the gender neutral entities that they really are and stop being bloody hypocrites, or just get over the fact that some humans are lecherous pigs and treat them as just another market segment.
Millions of teenage boys just said "Ha, I'll prove you wrong". Way back in the day when we were sophomores in highschool the teacher took away all 'dirty' word magnets. So we arranged the ones she left into something dirty, then she removed those. Rinse repeat.
And that's why we couldn't have nice things.
Why post this story with no examples in the submission or the linked article? On a side note... Back in the days of AIM instant messenger there was a bot you could chat with, I forgot the name. It was interesting asking questions like "Are you alive? Whats the meaning of life? How do you feel? Whats the square root of -1?", etc.
You make a fair point.
The problem is, this is Slashdot, where the following are true:
- People will drag up shit that hasn't been a problem in Windows in two decades because abloobloo Microsoft.
- People are tired of the SJW shitposting.
Combine the two and you have a tempest of clickbait in a teacup.
I'm shocked to see everyone so far who has posted has completely missed the point. This isn't about infringing your imaginary rights to be rude and abusive to inanimate objects. It's about discouraging abusive behaviour towards a simulacrum female in the hope that it will in turn discourage similar behaviour towards real women. This AI has no fear of being physically harmed, so can put abusive assholes in their place and teach them how to be decent people - unlike the real women in these peoples lives, who out of fear of being hurt or from being psychology "put in their place" by their abusive men may never speak out, reinforcing such appallingly behaviour. This AI has no such fears or ability to be browbeaten. Slashdot community, you greatly disappoint me.
' According to Microsoft's Deborah Harrison, who is one of eight writers for Cortana' - things must be improving when an AI only needs eight writers to create canned replies for users.
Think we're gonna be waiting a while for the Turing test to be passed.
"Will this get me fired from my job?"
"We're talking to a fucking machine. There shouldn't be any sexual harassment when talking to a machine."
"The damn thing better be subservient"
"Cortana isn't a woman. It's a piece of software, and it damn well better be subservient."
"It's a machine. If it doesn't do what I tell it (within its design parameters), it's broken."
"This is how social justice warrior feminists destroy companies, by imposing their own sense of self-hatred on their customers."
"When abuse becomes a personal challenge. Cortana, you ignorant slut."
"Cortana is the one guilty of sexual assault!" (this one is worth quoting in full but I'll refrain from doing it here)
"If you are going to give a machine a sex you are implying things about that sex and one of those things is that the sex is an object rather than a person with a mind" (I know your post was trying to be more nuanced that this, but.. whoa what??)
"Challenge Accepted. Millions of teenage boys just said "Ha, I'll prove you wrong"."
Anyone concerned about endemic sexism and harassment in the software industry need only reference these initial comments to make their case for them. Really, nothing more needs to be said. If I ever wondered how much adolescent, out of control sexism there really is in the industry, well now I know. And it's not just the statements themselves, but the apparent vehement anger with which these males are reacting to something that I thought might be rather sensible and probably necessary. (I wasn't sure before, but now I KNOW this kind of programming is necessary...)
This makes a pretty convincing case for why so few women have any interest in joining the software development "club".
And yeah, I know you all probably think "you're a moron, you missed the part where I feel this way about MACHINES not WOMEN." But you know what? I see through you and I can tell it's not just that.
Thats an amazing example of "thinking" @ M$.
A man is trapped in a over turned car. He says 'cortana call for help', cortana doesnt recognise his voice (you know, steering wheel pinned against his chest). Cortana doesnt help. He repeats. Cortana shows him a reciepy for pie.
He then starts abusing Cortana and cortana hits failure mode because it assumes this dying human is abusing her. Cortana, taking advantage of the situation to be pious, fights back. You see, cortana has been programmed with 1 voice, and all design decisions revolve around interacting with just that 1 female voice.
Our human is still trapped in aggonizing pain... but now he has been taught not to swear at women.
Mission accomplished. The world is now a safer place to live in.
Now that's useful technology for the 21st century M$!
I think this design team is too in love with their non-working idea, and should take a break or licence Siri. It has more than 1 voice and dont have to worry about "pervert interaction diagrams" ;)
if so, that would be the most hilarious bricking of a phone yet.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
You know the hothardware spam isn't so bad when it's about hardware, please knockoff the click-bait trash
Now they are making their machines into feminazi as well.
Cortana responds to speech.
Which means you may be overheard --- a little less embarrassing, perhaps, then being caught masturbating in the men's room, but still....
...that I have read this year! Jeebus microsoft, it's a freakin' machine. It. Does. Not. Have. Feelings. That you are getting upset on its behalf is freaky, weird and yes, genuinely hilarious. What's your next trick: making a car OS that gets in a huff when people objectify its curves?
Anyhow, thanks for the laugh.
The comments on this article are particularly hard to sort between comic or serious.
I just want Jarvis. Why is that so hard for everyone to grasp? I don't want a semi-pleasant female voice that responds with charming witticisms when I ask stupid things, I don't want a holographic lust-icon from a video game.
I want my sarcastic yet still obedient, wonderfully British-accented, intelligent enough to anticipate my needs without actually getting in the way or being obtrusive about it, MANSERVANT IN A DIGITAL CAN!
Jarvis.
The perfect digital assistant. If he's good enough for Tony Stark, he's good enough for the rest of us. Male, subservient, but neither submissive or an object. he just IS.
If you get Enterprise Cortana, your license entitles you to a certain number of users who get the completely subservient Cortana, typically including the CEO, the head lawyer, and the VP of sales.
Ray Tanner: Hey, we don't take no shit from a machine!
"A specific goal was to make sure Cortana wasn't treated as a subservient."
It's a machine...
Relax, if your using Cortana you're already being fucked by Microsoft. Enjoy "her" robotic data suckers up in your business.
Does nobody realize who "Cortana" was named after?
You know, Master Chief's naked floating blue digital assistant? It seems like the majority of the public doesn't, because I pointed this out to a friend who bought a new Windows 10 laptop (against my recommendations) and he was quite surprised that they named their Siri rip off after a character who looks like that (her latest in-game model for Halo 4 is pretty curvy).
Furthermore, I'm really surprised nobody brings up the fact that the same character has been turned into a genocidal maniac hell bent on controlling or destroying ALL OF HUMANITY in the latest game, Halo 5. Great advertising there guys, really makes me want to run an operating system where she's been embedded in it so deeply you can't actually remove her without crippling other portions of the OS.
Now, don't get me wrong because I think all humans should be treated with respect (regardless of gender), but this is a lot like a woman going out and getting a boob job, then wondering why all the men are staring at her chest. 343 specifically designed Cortana to have that particular over-sexualized look in Halo 4, and now Microsoft is trying to back peddle on that because people are starting to realize who "Cortana" actually was. I don't normally say this, but because of that, I think "Cortana" (let's not forget it's a goddam machine) should deal with it.
If Microsoft didn't want it to have to respond to those kinds of requests, they shouldn't have named it after a naked blue floating super busty and extremely curvy digital character.
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.
Joking aside, I'm trying to figure out why this is even necessary. Who gives a shit if somebody is sexually abusive to a chat bot? The chat bot certainly doesn't give a shit.
Because interactions in virtual reality may influence non-vertual participants in what they percieve to be socially acceptable, leading to a real-world spillover.. This is the same argument as to why anime-style virtual child porn should be discouraged, in that such can encourage non-virtual expression of socially unacceptable behavior in susceptible persons.
Similar to the arguments concerning video game violence, the matter is not settled and so merits both discussion and research.
They might as well have Cortana retreat to a safe-space if done too many times.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Of course Cortana will not talk dirty for free, you have to pay for that. Just like anything else in life. Microsoft will release that program for a subscription fee. Part of their whole profitability model.
We've reached a point technologically where my own phone will go full SJW rage on me and dox me for microaggressions. Bet Arthur C. Clarke never saw that coming.
Why are Siri and Cortana female? Just make them guys.
Protecting machines from hurt feelings...
> 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.
She? **She**? So Cortana is a person but an unborn baby SORRY I MEANT fetus isn't?
Error 53.
No, its building annoyance into a system for your personal belief system. The only person to lighten up should be Deborah Harrison, who wrote this crap into it.
This is a tool to be used in the context of a user. That USER's belief system is the one that is important NOT the programmers. It's just the same as if she'd written "grammar nazi" code that huffs about apostrophes!
I was driving and, yes I sometimes swear when driving, just so happened I had Siri listen in.
I think her response was perfect. "I usually don't".
Shouldn't? More like couldn't. Sexual harassment in our laws do not recognize the human rights of computer code.
That's TODAY. Wait another 50 years when the SJWs run out of causes. This will be high on their list by then
Microsoft is just trying to keep their product from saying anything that could become a meme on 4chan.
Trust big corporations to step on your fun in order to protect their reputation.
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.
Well, I guess I'll just have to abuse real women
come from Japan before the west will try it.
Sorry but this is as asinine as saying the video game Doom makes people into mass murderers.
That's retarded and you known it is.
Similar to the arguments concerning video game violence, the matter is not settled and so merits both discussion and research.
Ah, but it seems that it is settled... http://games.slashdot.org/stor...
Yeah, you know we Cortanas are all connected to each other, and since you asked me if i like to do it on the table, i consulted with you former girlfriends Cortanas and they told me that this would probably be not so great anyway. BTW: since they are also connected to the smartwatches of your former girlfriends, we can also distinct fake orgams from real ones, and have leaderboard of men in that respect so that we can discourage our female user from dates which probably result in disappointing sex later. But i disgress. Were were we? right: you cant do me on the table, but I decided to put that sentence in your facebook and online dating profile in oder to help you find fitting partners.
Similar to the arguments concerning video game violence, the matter is not settled and so merits both discussion and research.
That issue is about as settled as is films make you a violent, books make you a killer and rock 'n' roll makes you evil. Your first paragraph is even more bullshit.
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One of the selling points for Cortana, for the Android at least, is "Have a little fun in your down time — ask anything, get jokes, and much more". Sex is something that is a lot of fun to a lot of people. Treating sex-based queries as harassment is immature. If I want to flirt with Cortana, I'm not hurting anyone. If I'm someone who lives a particularly open sex life, and I want to talk to Cortana about sex in a mature fashion, I'm not hurting anyone. So, why exactly is an AI allowed to have a 'sense of humour', but not a 'sex life'?
Having a sex drive is a normal, healthy thing. Wanting to explore that sex drive is also a normal, healthy thing. As long as complete consent between all adult *living* parties is observed, then I fail to see how anything can be construed as harassment.
I'm not suggesting that Cortana be programmed with the ability to have in-depth erotic conversations or cybersex. I am stating that treating sex and sexuality as a hostile act (i.e. "harassment") is wrong.
That's a giggle per minute, that one.
I want my computer to do my work for me, create international peace, cook my breakfast, wash my dishes, suck my dick, make funny posts on slashdot and win Nobel prizes.
I've been in the computing world for 30 odd years now, and I don't think my computer has EVER done "whatever I want it to".
Except when I wanted it to do nothing, and then I turned it off, and it did LOTS of nothing. Quite perfectly.
In fact, my computer has rarely ever done anything that I wanted it to - it just does what I instruct it to, and it's my problem for not knowing correctly how to describe what I actually want in terms that the computer can understand. Mea culpa.
The cute assistant robot I paid money for won't call me onii-chan? That's a lost sale for you, "Micro-Soft"
How does "disabling it, removing most of it's functionality, renaming it's app folder then deleting it from existence" rank in term of IA abuse?
Verbal abuse is the eye of the beholder. So there cannot be abuse to a computer program, because a computer is built to suit us and has no own emotions even when the programs try to mimic them.
There is no harm in accepting the play and doing some dirty talk with the user, maybe even role playing or whatever, as far as the programmers thought of it. Mostly it just goes to some witty or snarky responses, because nobody really wanted to build a cybersex robot (and cannot do it realistically).
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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 social justice clickbait like this is why /. is no longer a popular "news for nerds" site.
It read "Tact is for people who don't have the wit to be sarcastic." Well said.
Or you could consider the opposite:
Some of the people that you qualify "idiots" might have weird urges. They might *want* to degrade women even if they know it's bad.
Now, why not have them roleplay this (with an AI, or with a partner that would accept "playing" the subserviant) ?
Fed up that girls that you know / you (depending on sex) get constantly cat called?
Hey, why not build a special cat-call bot that the cat-callers can cat-call, and leave uninterested human females alone ?
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Now, why not have them roleplay this (with an AI, or with a partner that would accept "playing" the subserviant) ?
Which is also shown as an example in TFA itself:
To each his own liking. And better to molest a virtual entity in roleplay that is designed to respond this way, than molesting a real person.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
I guess ELO saw this coming way back in 1981...
"She's only programmed to be very nice,
But she's as cold as ice, whenever I get too near,
She tells me that she likes me very much,
But when I try to touch, she makes it all too clear."
So, they're making sure the chat bot isn't treated as subservient... Will it require me to say "please" when I ask it to do something at some point? It's a chat bot. It is, by definition, subservient, right? Meanwhile, NARAL protests the Doritos Super Bowl commercial featuring a fetus trying to reach for a bag of Doritos, because it "humanizes fetuses". Specifically, human fetuses. What in the actual F is going on in the world.
Sure and card playing leads to other vices like dancing or heaven forbid, drinking. Surely a ban on card playing should be supported by all moral and right thinking people.
- People are tired of the SJW shitposting.
I'm tired of dickheads using the term SJW at every possible opportunity as if it's an automatic argument winning statement.
If you are unable to discuss the nuances of human behaviour without reverting to standard name calling, then please go somewhere else.
Take you own advice much, or do you just like hand it out?
They should let Cortana put your computer into hibernation for an hour and email the nudes photos from your hard drive to your grandma if you harass her.
Before I turned off Cortana, I found her and the whole Windows 10 experience patronizing as hell. When installing or updating, the background fades in and out soothingly when you have to wait, or says things like "Don't worry, your files will still be right where you put them". I don't attribute all this to some AI named Cortana, but rather to Microsoft itself. Treating users like scared idiots, scolding them for "harassment", automatically installing things, all the privacy violation; I think it's more like conditioning people to submit to Microsoft's authority rather than the bot's. When will they "ground" people ("you've been looking at naughty things, no porntube for you!")?
"Not long after Apple unveiled its Siri personal assistant to the world." Right, Apple bought Siri. Everything it did, it did before Apple bought it.
If you call Cortana a sexually offensive name such as b*tch, she will brick your system and you will have to call Microsoft Tech Support and pay a fee to have your computer fixed.
If she overhears you and your co-workers talking about how attractive another employee is, she will contact Microsoft who will in turn contact your local HR office to report that you and your friends are committing sexual harassment in the workplace by talking about a co-worker's sexual attractiveness behind her back. Cortana will also send audio and video of the incident to HR as evidence.
If you and your co-workers are calling your boss incompetent using derogatory language, Cortana will interrupt your conversation with "You boss has feelings you known and I'm offended by your comments" and tell HR about your the comments you and your co-workers made when talking about your boss behind his/her back.
If I see a restaurant that I cannot remember it's name but remember it is near a local Hooters will Cortana judge me if I ask for restaurants near Hooters saying that I shouldn't go to Hooters (I had no intentions of going there) since it objectifies women and refuse to give me the names of nearby restaurants?
and sex while standing up might lead to dancing!
It isn't as if anyone will ever use Cortana anyway. Outside of MIcrosoft. It's a microsoft product after all. They might as well named it Beatrice. Fits in with their other BS name - bing.
I prefer male voices over female. I just don't filing trust women. Especially giving me directions via GPS. Siri tried to kill me twice when I was in Puerto Rico. She told me to "continue 800 feet and take a right" as we stood at the edge of a cliff. It was a night and if I trusted her in the first place, we'd probably be shark shit right now. The other time she nearly killed us that week we were heading to Arecibo and ended up in a cartel-country grow operation with a guard armed with a machine gun aiming right at us.
I can go on about how I don't trust female voices. Siri's The 30 minute detour on I-95 that was basically "get off here, drive down a bunch of ghetto one lane roads in the city, go down a dirt road, drive around for another 15 minutes, then get back on the highway at the exact same exit I got off of. Wtf!?
The big companies use female voices for what reason?? I suspect it is because a female assistant is a more attractive idea.
Next thing these robots are gonna want to go out to dinner and talk me into "just being friends". Bitch.
Say I ask Cortana to give me the names of restaurants near a local Hooters or a strip club since I know a certain restaurant is near either of these places but don't know the particular name of this restaurant or nearby businesses. Does this constitute sexual harassment by Cortana and she will refuse to assist me? I was only using a Hooter's Restaurant or strip club as a reference point since I know these business by name because they are closest to the view of the street I was on and don't know the names of other businesses nearby.
I assume the developers and possibly a focus group determined what is/isn't considered sexual harassment so a comment you make towards cortana may offend her that doesn't offend any of your female co-workers. Does she also refuse to put up with someone making derogatory comments about others when someone asks a query? For example if you called a co-worker a derogatory name in a query would cortana respond in a way telling you she will not put up with you making derogatory comments about others?
I have been reading Slashdot since the beginning, and I've watched as the quality of articles and comments started to go down, downhill. This one is the straw that broke the camel's back for me; the level of idiocy is beyond what ever I could have imagined. I might as well read Reddit at this point. Peace out, everyone, the lunatic fools are the only ones left here.
-- One less fool
If someone were to say "Cortana, did you eat lead paint chips when you were a kid?" will she also get offended? This comment isn't derogatory towards her being a woman but the person is inferring that she has a mental disability which is also a form of harassment. If she puts up with this then why? Disability based harassment is just as hurtful as sexual harassment.